A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it.
The abstract character exemplified in all particular things of the same type, believed to have real existence independently of particular things according to Plato and other realists. Synonymous with "form" or "idea" in Platonic realism. Cf. Particulars
Term often used in psychology to refer to those thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that apply to us all. Universal abilities are innate. This means that they come to us by way of genetic inheritance. If something is innate it usually has a high survival value for us. This is the reason it is innate in the first place! Universal abilities include such things as the Fight or Flight response.
A behavioural (or linguistic) trait, characteristic or pattern that exists in all cultures.
a general concept, or the idea of a thing, whereas a particular is literally the thing-in-itself
a Notion which unites existent things, a Particular is a Notion which divides existent things
a quality or property that each individual member of a class of things must possess if the same general word is to apply to all the things in that class
a word apt to be predicated truly of many different things
In epistemology, an idea, the content of which is predicable of a class as a class and of each individual member of a class.
Pertains to the 'all', all things seen and unseen within all of divine creation.