And what we see is sort of amazing, because there's human universals on what you do with your money, and real cultural differences on what you do as well.

Now over the last century, in developed nations like America, moral debate has escalated because we take the hypothetical seriously, and we also take universals seriously and look for logical connections.

You're treating them as universals, to be rendered consistent by logic.

In other words, people in the cooking world were looking for cooking universals.

And it's good reason for them to be obsessed with the idea of universals, because all of science, through the 19th century and much of the 20th, was obsessed with universals.

It is the movement from the search for universals to the understanding of variability.

Some scholars have tried to identify patterns common to all languages, but apart from some basic features, like having nouns or verbs, few of these so-called linguistic universals have been found.

One of them, from anthropology, is the study of human universals.

I note that among the long list of human universals that I presented a few slides ago are art.

Universals in sentence

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