Ontological Dimension of Universal as the Category of Humanitarian
Ontological Dimension of Universal as the Category of Humanitarian

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an overview of approaches to the ontological dimension of the universal as a category of humanitarian knowledge. An extensive analysis allowed to conclude that the study of universals within humanitarian studies has been mainly considered by philosophers in Indian and Arab-Muslim and Western European philosophies as 1) nominalistic; 2) realistic and 3) conceptual understanding. Philosophers of culture perceived universals as the symbolic core of culture or archetypes. In linguistics, the universal modes of human thought were developed by the modists, the "Universal Grammar of Port-Royal", the "Memorandum on Linguistic Universals": classical universalism; cognitive psychologism or conceptualisation of reality: cognitive (generative) grammar, cognitive semantics, theory of semantic primitives, theory of conceptual integration, etc.

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