Universals
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Examples
- The things which are seen are opposed in Scripture to the things which are unseen--they are equally opposed in Plato to universals and ideas. Plato. The Republic.
- She did not believe in her own universals--they were sham. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He means to say that the higher faculties have to do with universals, the lower with particulars of sense. Plato. The Republic.
- Reason deals with universals, with general principles, with laws, which lie above the welter of concrete details. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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