Unmanifested powers and universals

Linguistic diversity and universals

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 ...

Moral Universals and Individual Differences

Contemporary moral psychology has focused on the notion of a universal moral sense, robust to individual and cultural differences. Yet recent evidence has revealed individual differences in the psychological processes for moral judgment: controlled cognition, mental-state reasoning, and emotional responding. We discuss this evidence and its relation to cross-cultural diversity