universal
His lyrics aim for a certain timeless universality.
These stories illustrate the universality of the subject.
He discusses the different points of view concerning the universality of life.

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Examples of universality

universality
We raise the related question of the possible universality of biochemistry, one of the sciences supporting chemical evolution.
The universality of any design incorporating a representation of the original instrument plus supplementary controllers will never be guaranteed.
For if objectivity expressed the tension between particularity and universality, it could be transposed to the languages of social thought and political economy.
The universality of this pattern explained the diversity of social life throughout the world, with different societies assigned to different stages of development.
Now, this violates the universality assumption of markets.
Universality of markets, a prerequisite for the first fundamental welfare theorem, must also mean that bounds are adequately determined.
Scaling coupling energies by the critical temperature gives a universal phase diagram, for systems falling into the universality class of backbone-entropy-driven unfolding as discussed previously.
We leave to the reader the task of verifying ø that this assures the desired universality property.
The essay also has a methodological aim, which is to defend its conclusions without asserting the universality of standard liberal-democratic norms.
Three points are particularly decisive for the universality of this standpoint.
This would open the discourse to multiple ways of knowing, thereby rendering taken-for-granted categories and claims to universality vulnerable to displacement and deconstruction.
Because the cases they choose are invariably unusual, they do not seek universality in explaining differing outcomes.
But this is not enough because the universality of the mathematical as ontology canceled any possibility of transcending it.
The latter form an ensemble and therefore do not come with the same claim of universality.
Based on the negative results, the would-be universality of apparent motion trajectories will then be reconsidered, reevaluating the example of kinematic geometry.
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