Sentence examples for universal entities from inspiring English sources

In the case of universal entities, Ockham's nominalism is not based on his Razor, his principle of parsimony.

Most famously, perhaps, is Plato's positing of the existence of numbers, perfect geometrical figures, and other universal entities.

Conversely, one might reduce the number of ontological categories, and yet hold that universal entities are needed in the categories that remain.

For Ockham, the only universal entities it makes sense to talk about are universal concepts, and derivative on them, universal terms in spoken and written language.

Given that nominalists about universals believe only in particulars, there are two strategies that they might implement regarding the question of the alleged existence of allegedly universal entities like properties and relations.

To the Fichtean foundations, however, Hegel added one crucial corollary: that the Absolute, or Whole, which is a concrete universal entity, is not static but undergoes a crucial development over time.

At the limit, however, the universal entity U would involve parts of all ontological kinds.

However, obviously, all these questions presuppose that it is at all, namely, that such a universal entity exists.

So, the Form itself is a universal entity, a universal model of all its particulars; and since it is the knowledge of this universal entity that can enable us to know at once all its particulars, it is absolutely vital for us to know what it is, what it is like, and exactly how it is related to its particulars.

Note that 'Uxy' is bound to hold if one assumes the existence of a "universal entity" of which everything is part.

However, note that every GEM model hence every ÃGEM model is necessarily bound at the top, owing to the existence of the universal entity U.