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  • So long as what were termed Universals were regarded as a peculiar kind of substances, having an objective existence distinct from the individual objects classed under them, the _dictum de omni_ conveyed an important meaning; because it expressed the intercommunity of nature, which it was necessary on that theory that we should suppose to exist between those general substances and the particular substances which were subordinated to them.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839

  • So long as what are termed Universals were regarded as a peculiar kind of substances, having an objective existence distinct from the individual objects classed under them, the _dictum de omni_ conveyed an important meaning; because it expressed the intercommunity of nature, which it was necessary on that theory that we should suppose to exist between those general substances and the particular substances which were subordinated to them.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • Bealer, George (1993), "Universals", Journal of Philosophy, 90 (1): 5 “ 32.

    Abstract Objects Rosen, Gideon 2001

  • Ekman et al., “Pan-Cultural Elements in Facial Displays of Emotion,” Science 164 (1969), 86–88; idem, “Universals and Cultural Differences in Facial Expressions of Emotion,” in J. K. Cole, Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972), 207–83; Carroll E.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • See Donald E. Brown, Human Universals New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991 and the list of universals based on it and published in Pinker, The Blank Slate, 435–39; also, Brown, “Human Universals and Their Implications,” in N.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • See Donald E. Brown, Human Universals New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991 and the list of universals based on it and published in Pinker, The Blank Slate, 435–39; also, Brown, “Human Universals and Their Implications,” in N.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Ekman et al., “Pan-Cultural Elements in Facial Displays of Emotion,” Science 164 (1969), 86–88; idem, “Universals and Cultural Differences in Facial Expressions of Emotion,” in J. K. Cole, Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972), 207–83; Carroll E.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • See Donald E. Brown, Human Universals New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991 and the list of universals based on it and published in Pinker, The Blank Slate, 435–39; also, Brown, “Human Universals and Their Implications,” in N.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • See Donald E. Brown, Human Universals New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991 and the list of universals based on it and published in Pinker, The Blank Slate, 435–39; also, Brown, “Human Universals and Their Implications,” in N.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Ekman et al., “Pan-Cultural Elements in Facial Displays of Emotion,” Science 164 (1969), 86–88; idem, “Universals and Cultural Differences in Facial Expressions of Emotion,” in J. K. Cole, Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972), 207–83; Carroll E.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

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