However, Ockham also claims that in the divine mind these universals do not function as universal exemplars, as they do in the minds of created agents.
I have an obligation to resist all coercive claims on my individual autonomy and choice that makes me a moral being, of which a noxious exemplar is a universal licence fee.
In the first place, the exemplar is the universal species of the object that the mind obtains by abstraction, on the basis of sensible data.
Truth is the result of the comparison between two exemplars: the Aristotelian universal obtained by abstraction from sensible data, and the archetype present in the divine mind, which is not only the cause of the existence of things, but also their epistemic guarantee, so to speak.
To address the quality of the bioinformatics approach, universal pyrosequencing assays were designed from Affymetrix exemplar sequences to independently assess polymorphisms within a subset of probes for validation.
There are other exemplars – such as parent-held universal child health books that are liked and used by parents to record important information and trigger or facilitate timely discussion with healthcare professionals [ 24].
Now there are two exemplars: the created exemplar, which is the species of the universal caused by the thing known, and the uncreated exemplar, which is an idea in the divine mind.
And, indeed, Hempel took sentences of this kind as exemplars of "lawlike sentences", which combine purely universal form with what he called purely qualitative predicates.
In the structure of the Mohist theory, however, they are conceptualized not as universal principles, applied by deductive reasoning, but as models or exemplars, applied by pattern recognition and analogical reasoning, against which we compare social practices or individual conduct to determine what is shi (right) and fei (wrong).
Mr. Patten makes an eloquent case for universal values, and for the importance of human rights, even quoting that exemplar of Asian values, Confucius, in support of his position.
