Universals are the predictables of unpredictable. Your opinion -?

Answer 1

Absolutely right..... searching for patterns and universalities in the unpredictables is the only way we can handle them... to the extent of those universals identified within them, they do become reasonably predictable. If we examine carefully, it would become obvious that all our knowledge is based on the patterns and universalities that repeat themselves reasonably consistently.

SUPER question!!

Answer 2

Universals are the unpredictable of the predictable. We begin unknowing then sense the world of things for things. We recognize those things we have sensed when again sensing them, and cognate them as things in them selves that exist for their selves as we do not sense them, i.e. their existence does not subsist on our sensing them. How we know a things kind is how we understand that a part of a thing shared with an other for its identify for recognizing it is abstracted as a universal part for its kind, and not regarding not any other differences for each of that kind, know the kind the thing is of by those parts they share or have as THEIR identity for OUR recognizing them. e.g. fish have scales for skin and fins to propel them, but all other differences are not regarded as signifying a species until that ability exists in the mind sensing them according to that minds interests and sensibility. The Will is positive and so seeks what it posits in its self from memory, but the Judgment is negative, and posits known dangers according to its rules for its operation, defense for the self in its totality.

Answer 3

An attempt to take a posteriori knowledge and work it like you would a priori?

Universals are an attempt to take things and categorize them to the point that they can be easily understood.

It is much like the human brain's natural ability to see similarities in things, like a rubby ducky in the clouds.

Yet within all of this we find complexities that continue to baffle us.