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A universal truth?
And in the 20th century, medical anthropologists, like Arthur Kleinman, gathered evidence from the way people talk about pain to suggest that emotions aren't universal at all, and that culture, particularly the way we use language, can influence how we feel.
At the level of the global political economy, imagine for a moment that our national currencies have a free-floating exchange rate, with a universal, global, digital currency, one that is issued by the International Monetary Fund, the G-20, on behalf of all humanity.
The Pythagoreans of 5th Century Greece believed numbers were both living entities and universal principles.
Henri Poincaré, one of the father's of non-Euclidean geometry, believed that the existence of non-Euclidean geometry, dealing with the non-flat surfaces of hyperbolic and elliptical curvatures, proved that Euclidean geometry, the long standing geometry of flat surfaces, was not a universal truth, but rather one outcome of using one particular set of game rules.
Artificial construct or universal truth?
Michelangelo chose to paint destiny, that universal desire, common to all of us, to leave a legacy of excellence.
But Michelangelo was trying to use only the best artistic language, the most universal artistic language he could think of: that of the human body.
The universal phenomenon of entropy means that molecules will tend towards diffusing randomly, moving from areas of high concentration to low concentration, or even breaking apart into smaller molecules and atoms.
Most African slavery had no deeper reason than legal punishment or intertribal warfare, but the Europeans who preached a universal religion, and who had long ago outlawed enslaving fellow Christians, needed justification for a practice so obviously at odds with their ideals of equality.
Code is the next universal language.
Through its universal translator, the alien guarding you tells you the following: You will be placed in a single-file line facing forward in size order so that each of you can see everyone lined up ahead of you.
But to keep things consistent, the creators of Star Trek and other science-fiction worlds have introduced the concept of a universal translator, a portable device that can instantly translate between any languages.
So is a universal translator possible in real life?
In fact, one of the most famous fictional universal translators, the Babel fish from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", is not a machine at all but a small creature that translates the brain waves and nerve signals of sentient species through a form of telepathy.
But thanks to improving technology and precision, these objects with limited access and unreliable longevity are now being replaced with standards based on universal constants, like the speed of light.
American psychologist Paul Ekman identified certain universal emotions whose visual cues are understood the same way across cultures.
Others believe it was written by the 13th century philosopher Roger Bacon, who attempted to understand the universal laws of grammar, or in the 16th century by the Elizabethan mystic John Dee, who practiced alchemy and divination.
We already live in a world where real-time universal translators exist.
Well, we used the universal language: music.
So, I also want to explain, because Dave Eggers said he was going to heckle me if I said anything that was a lie, or not true to universal creativity.
The universal symbol of our movement is the red umbrella.
I make sure those messages are relevant to the place where I am painting but have this universal dimension, so anybody around the world can relate to it.
We need to seriously consider a universal basic income.
Esther Perel: It's interesting, because on the one hand, the need for love is ubiquitous and universal.
I learned that what we see is not universal truth.
The language I'm speaking right now is on its way to becoming the world's universal language, for better or for worse.
It may not be universal, it may not apply in every setting.
And the range of stories are varied and diverse, but they also make up a universal tapestry.
See, water isn't just the universal solvent.
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