Universal vs Transhistorical - What's the difference?
universal | transhistorical |
Of or pertaining to the universe.
Common to all members of a group or class.
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Common to all society; world-wide
Cosmic; unlimited; vast; infinite
Useful for many purposes, e.g., universal wrench .
(philosophy) A characteristic or property that particular things have in common.
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* {{quote-book, year=1970, title=Speech acts, author=John R. Searle
, passage=We might also distinguish those expressions which are used to refer to individuals or particulars from those which are used to refer to what philosophers have called universals : e.g., to distinguish such expressions as "Everest" and "this chair" from "the number three", "the color red" and "drunkenness".
Outside the bounds of history; universal; permanent.
* 2005 , Michael Cronin, Training For The New Millennium , edited by Martha Tennent, John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 259:
As nouns the difference between universal and transhistorical
is that universal is (philosophy) a characteristic or property that particular things have in common while transhistorical is outside the bounds of history; universal; permanent.As an adjective universal
is of or pertaining to the universe.universal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She achieved universal fame.
Derived terms
* universalise, universalize * universal quantifierAntonyms
* nonuniversalSee also
* (wikipedia "universal") * general * globalExternal links
* *Noun
(en noun)citation
See also
* particularExternal links
* *The Medieval Problem of Universals- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ----
transhistorical
English
Noun
(-)- An assumption made in much translation pedagogy is that... students are always and everywhere the same. In other words, the student is an invariant, transhistorical subject who is, to all intents and purposes, indistinguishable from his or her counterpart in the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth century.
