Universality (philosophy)

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In philosophy, universality or absolutism is the idea that universal facts exist and can be progressively discovered, as opposed to relativism, which asserts that all facts are relative to one's perspective.^[1][2] Absolutism and relativism have been explored at length in contemporary analytic philosophy.

Also see Kantian and Platonist notions of "universal", which are considered by most philosophers to be separate notions.