How did universals start?

Question:Unlike answer number one, I believe you are asking how did universal truths start.

This is the conundrum of universals. To be truly universals they must have been true prior to time and prior to creation, but it is hard for us to conceive as temporal beings this sort of entity. However, this does not mean that universals are impossible.

Universals by defination would have no "start", they are just woven into the very fabric of existence, prior to all existence.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Unlike answer number one, I believe you are asking how did universal truths start.

This is the conundrum of universals. To be truly universals they must have been true prior to time and prior to creation, but it is hard for us to conceive as temporal beings this sort of entity. However, this does not mean that universals are impossible.

Universals by defination would have no "start", they are just woven into the very fabric of existence, prior to all existence.

There are many ideas of how the universe began. Some say God created the heaven's(the universe) and earth. Some say it was the bigbang. I guess it's whatever you believe in.

A few quotes to describe it:
"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."
Review of J.H. Randall's Aristotle,
The Objectivist Newsletter, May 1963, 18

"Denying Plato's World of Forms, Aristotle maintains that there is only one reality: the world of particulars in which we live, the world men perceive by means of their physical senses. Universals, he holds, are merely aspects of existing entities, isolated in thought by a process of selective attention; they have no existence apart from particulars. Reality is comprised, not of Platonic abstractions, but of concrete, individual entities, each with a definite nature, each obeying the laws inherent in its nature. Aristotle's universe is the universe of science. "
Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels, 29

"Universal: (Lat. universalia, a universal) [ ] A possibility of discrete being. According to Plato, an idea (which see). According to Aristotle, that which by its nature is fit to be predicated of many. For medieval realists, an entity whose being is independent of its mental apprehension or actual exemplification. (See: Realism). For medieval nominalists, a general notion or concept having no reality of its own in the realm of being (see Nominalism). In psychology: a concept. See Concept, General, Possibility. Opposite of: particular. "
http://www.ditext.com/runes/u.html

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
a. The Nature of Universals
b. Reasons to Postulate Universals
c. The Problem of Universals
2. Versions of Realism
a. Extreme Realism
b. Strong Realism
c. Objections to Realism
3. Versions of Anti-Realism
a. Predicate Nominalism
b. Resemblance Nominalism
c. Trope Nominalism
d. Conceptualism
4. Concluding Thoughts
5. References and Further Reading
http://www.iep.utm.edu/u/universa.htm

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