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  2. Universal (metaphysics) - Wikipedia

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    A universal may have instances, known as its particulars. For example, the type dog (or doghood) is a universal, as are the property red (or redness) and the relation betweenness (or being between). Any particular dog, red thing, or object that is between other things is not a universal, however, but is an instance of a universal.

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    For Dummies is an extensive series of instructional reference books which are intended to present non-intimidating guides for readers new to the various topics covered. The series has been a worldwide success with editions in numerous languages.

  4. Universal property - Wikipedia

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    Universal constructions are functorial in nature: if one can carry out the construction for every object in a category C then one obtains a functor on C. Furthermore, this functor is a right or left adjoint to the functor U used in the definition of the universal property. [2] Universal properties occur everywhere in mathematics.

  5. Nominalism - Wikipedia

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    Suppose that a universal, for example greenness, is supposed to be a single thing. Nominalists consider it unusual that there could be a single thing that exists in multiple places simultaneously. The realist maintains that all the instances of greenness are held together by the exemplification relation, but that this relation cannot be explained.

  6. Theory of everything - Wikipedia

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    A theory of everything (TOE), final theory, ultimate theory, unified field theory, or master theory is a hypothetical singular, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all aspects of the universe.

  7. Aristotle's theory of universals - Wikipedia

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    In Aristotle's view, universals can be instantiated multiple times. He states that one and the same universal, such as applehood, appears in every real apple.A common sense challenge would be to inquire what remains exactly the same in all these different things, since the theory is claiming that something remains the same.

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  9. Glossary of mathematical jargon - Wikipedia

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    A canonical form of an object is some standard or universal way to express the object. correspondence A correspondence from a set A {\displaystyle A} to a set B {\displaystyle B} is a subset of a Cartesian product A × B {\displaystyle A\times B} ; in other words, it is a binary relation but with the specification of the ambient sets A , B ...