When we challenged her on her assertion of the universality of this knowledge, she backed off a bit and said that at least everyone at Hunter knew.
He thought that only on the basis of a close isomorphism between language and the world could the signifying power of terms and statements, the possibility of definitions, and finally the validity and universality of our knowledge be explained and ensured.
To quote from a remarkable essay on the whole question of citation (MacRoberts and MacRoberts, 1996), 'The cumulative effect of citing more and more people who similarly agree with the author is to concretize the universality of the knowledge claim.' Greenberg describes information cascades: authors write their clinical experience, citing similar practices and thus gain affirmation.
Thus, two requirements are to be followed: certainty of knowledge and universality of scope, and these requirements hold only for the five divisions of philosophy: metaphysics, physics, practical philosophy, mathematics, and logic.
At the same time, however, Auriol wants to preserve the universality of universal concepts and their use in essential predications and necessary, scientific knowledge, and he thinks that his theory of concepts does just that.
Under the aegis of the values of neutrality and universality that characterized his economic theory, social views and scientific epistemology, Neurath sought also the universal media of communication of knowledge: visual perception and scientific information.
After visiting South Sudan in 2012, she became acutely aware of the power of knowledge and the universality of the human spirit, inspiring her to take a bridge year before college.
The sun metaphor of illumination — as the source of both being and of knowledge (enlightenment) — befits the universality of the hosshin perfectly.
The varying importance of particular dimensions of knowledge for different social groups may allow cohesion to be sustained amidst pluralism, and universality to coexist with cultural distinctiveness.
Belief in the unity of science or knowledge, along with the universality of rationality, was at its strongest during the European Enlightenment.
