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- noun The quality (as of a
rule ) of being able to beapplied universally ; that is, to any given situation with noexceptions .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If it excludes beings capable of being moral agents, then it will undercut the universalisability by arbitrary restrictions.
Kansas BOE Chair - It's either the evolution or the Bible, not both - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Because every moral system must satisfy the universalisability requirement my view, it must set its limit at the limit of capacity to be a moral agent.
Kansas BOE Chair - It's either the evolution or the Bible, not both - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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But, once a maxim of action is formed that is universalisable, one's duty is fulfilled by acting upon it on the ground of this universalisability.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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But, once a maxim of action is formed that is universalisable, one's duty is fulfilled by acting upon it on the ground of this universalisability.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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But, once a maxim of action is formed that is universalisable, one's duty is fulfilled by acting upon it on the ground of this universalisability.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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But, once a maxim of action is formed that is universalisable, one's duty is fulfilled by acting upon it on the ground of this universalisability.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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