The charcteristics by which the different things are discerned as things are universals. What is your opinion?

Question

The charcteristics by which the different things are discerned as things are universals. What is your opinion?

Answer 1

"being" - the existence

Answer 2

It's a bit muddled, since "different things are discerned as things," is contradictory, since everything is a thing, and we don't  discern from the broadest possible class that there is.

But it's also incorrect because "the characteristics by which the different things are discerned" talks of particulars, not universals.

Answer 3

Your mind associates two delineated regions within holistic consciousness, simultaneously creating reality and a symbol to represent it, the signified and the signifier.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_%28sem...

We carve reality up so that we can understand it, but our symbolic understanding is only a simplified approximation to the underlying chaotic complexity.

You could mix biology and metaphysics to say that God is the storm of electrical impulses impinging on the brain and Satan is the categorizing of those impulses into the tidy reality we perceive.  But this would be just another metaphor.

Answer 4

True; the unconscious and subconscious process properly disconnected from the role of the ego or 'I'.

'1. Our ordinary Knowing has before itself only the object which it knows, but does not at first make an object of itself, i.e., of the Knowing. But the whole which is extant in the act of knowing is not the object alone, but also the Ego that knows, and the relation of the Ego and the object to each other, i.e. Consciousness. '

Outline of Hegel's Phenomenology

INTRODUCTION

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archiv...

Answer 5

Yes, it's universal.