Universals Quotes

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Aristotle

Nature, History, Poetry

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
Plato

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand Russell

Universal, Aware, Awareness

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.
Fredric Jameson

Everything, Universe, Idea

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
Catharine MacKinnon

Nothing, Human, Sense

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