The finding suggests that language universals might be explained, at least in part, by what appears to be the human brain's innate preference for "short dependencies." ...

A word like 'Huh?' —used when one has not caught what someone just said—appears to be universal: it is found to have very similar form and function in languages across the globe. This is one of the ...

More importantly, the human universals and their exceptions co-exist side by side with a great deal of inter-individual variation in traits that are not universal, for example, the type of ...

Adorno insists that the false universals of world history, the nation, and the tribe ought never conquer the individual, the particular, the other—in short, they must remain and retain a moment of ...

Citation Moldoveanu, M. C., and H. H. Stevenson. "Ethical Universals in Practice: An Analysis of Five Principles." Journal of Socio-Economics 28, no. 1 (1999).