What is selective universality?
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It's an oxymoron. You cannot be universal and selective. The British have been known to entertain several incomprehensible ideas at the same time, of course. See The Bridge Over the River Kwai.
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Universal Law of Gravity.\nALL objects attract each other with a force of gravitational attraction. This force of gravitational attraction is directly dependent upon the masses of both objects and inversely proportional to the square of the distance which separates their centers.\n\nWhere ever you are gravity has got you some way, however weak, something somewhere will be pulling you towards it.
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It is called 'universal' because it works for any mass, microscopic or astronomic.
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the probability of materials required for the first cell on earth to come together randomly is much greater than ONE in 10 raised to the power of 40, which as any mathematician will tell u, is considered a practical impossibility. \n  believing in evolution is like believing that these tall skyscrapers around us formed due to a random assembly of construction materials on their own.
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I would guess that it is selective bargaining
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Random chances are the same as probabilities. If you are so interested, you should look into Quantum Theory. It describes it in depth.
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Expanding on the above response on the Pareto principle, you can also demonstrate fractals, e.g. if 80% of the sales come from 20% of the customers, 80% of the sales from those 20% will come from 20% of those 80% assuming a large enough set.  Confusing?  I love fractals and think your question is awesome.
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Is the term you are looking for "probability"?\n\nI hope this helps.
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This is a common religious practice known as "selective observation." People who are religious will count good things that happen in the world as proof of God's existence, while either ignoring the bad, or passing it along to another (god-created) source.
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Isolation.\n\nAmplification.
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This is not an either/or situation.  The Universe as seen by physics is a trend for ordered sub-systems to become more chaotic over time.  This is the Second Law of Thermodynamics which states "The entropy of an isolated system not at equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value."  However NO sub-system is ever really isolated.\n\nLiving systems tend to reverse the "normal flow" toward higher entropy.  One might say that life runs counter to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.  Living systems tend to induce order to random elements of the Universe over time.\n\nThe best answer to your question is that the Universe is both Ordered and Chaotic, depending upon what localized portion of the space-time continuum one is observing.
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The issue you are really trying to get at is this- Are events predetermined or not. And that means ALL events including human thought. You should research the topics "determinism" and "quantum mechanics" and then decide on an answer for yourself. One is definitely the deciding factor, but either way free will is excluded.
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Irreducible complexity is a controversial concept invoked in support of intelligent design which claims that the generally accepted scientific theory that life evolved through biological evolution by natural selection is incomplete and flawed and that some additional mechanism is required to explain the origins of life. An irreducibly complex system is defined as one that could not possibly have been formed by successive, slight modifications to a functional precursor system.\n\nThe concept was popularized by Lehigh University biochemist and Fellow of the Discovery Institute Michael Behe in his 1996 book Darwin's Black Box, wherein Behe argued that there are biochemical systems which are "irreducibly complex" because he saw no way in which these systems could be broken down into smaller functioning systems. With this argument, the book in effect supports what is known as intelligent design, a form of the argument from design, which is one of the arguments for the existence of a supernatural deity.
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nope,,it makes you more universal.....
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It is an axiom of set theory that says whenever you have a set of disjoint non-empty sets, is it possible to find another set with exactly one element from each of the given sets. You *choose* one thing from each set to make up your new set. \n\nThe axiom is required because potentially an infinite number of arbitrary choices have to be made if there are infinite number of sets originally.\n\nThe axiom of choice is used to prove a number of important results in mathematics, from the Hahn-Banach Theorem, to the existence of maximal ideals, to equivalences of compactness.\n\nThe axiom of choice is equivalent to the Well-ordering principle and Zorn's lemma.
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The book is called elective affinities.
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Exact criteria is asking a lot.\n\nAll I can suggest is the Wikipedia entry.