Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
Fall 11-2-2024
Subjects
Dualism -- Philosophy, Metaphysics, Science -- Philosophy
Abstract
This paper explores the abstract dyad of universality and uniqueness. It notes that the two might be complementary and even synergistic, or that they might be alternatives that oppose one another. It also explores how the unique might be an emergent from a primal universality, as well as how the universal might be an emergent from a primal uniqueness. Finally, it offers an interpretation of this dyad in which the universal and the unique are equivalent transforms of one another and thus two sides of the same coin.
Keywords: Universality, uniqueness, general and particular, similarity and difference, fundamental dyad, dualism
Rights
© The Author
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/42688
Citation Details
Martin Zwick (2024). "The Universal and the Unique," Northwest Philosophy Conference, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, November 1-2, 2024
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