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.
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.
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.
This has seemed to modern commentators to imply an Averroist view of the intellect as a separate, universal entity [Corti (1983), 3 37], and the lines which follow (30 56), where the vertú of the sensitive soul displaces reason and "assumes its function," presenting to the will an object whose desirability threatens a fatal disorientation, sustain this impression.
Moreover, it turns out that if the stronger Complementation axiom (P.6) holds, then all of these principles are trivially satisfied in any domain in which there is a universal entity: in that case, regardless of ξ, the sum of any two entities is just the complement of the difference between the complement of one minus the other.
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) is a universal entity mediating apoptosis [ 33].
Most famously, perhaps, is Plato's positing of the existence of numbers, perfect geometrical figures, and other universal entities.
In the case of universal entities, Ockham's nominalism is not based on his Razor, his principle of parsimony.
