God and universals

Linguistic diversity and universals

mullā ṣadrā’s ultimate viewpoint concerning perception of universals (active intellect, vertical intellects, or god?)

in his discourses concerning perception of universals, mullā ṣadrā has brought up various issues. on one hand, he says that in sensory and imaginative perceptions, the soul (nafs) is the originator and creator of images and then with its substantial and ontogenetic motion it achieves its higher level of perception, i.e. rational perception, unites with the rational non-material substance named ...

Typology and universals

Universals and Other Generalities

ion’ (Halbfass, 1992, p. 145). That is to say, the abstract noun-phrase ‘is-ness’ is an artificial device, used to mention an entity that resists introduction as either a subject or a predicate, an entity, in other words, which is not itself either a particular or a universal. Existence is not a predicate; it is – to borrow the terminology of Section 5 – a delimitor, albeit a minimal one, of be...

Morphological Universals and Diachrony

Although linguistics is plausibly taken to be “the science of language,” the actual object of inquiry in the field has changed considerably over time. Prior to the influence of deSaussure in the first part of the twentieth century, linguists concerned themselves primarily with the ways in which languages have developed historically. For the next several decades, they devoted their attention to ...