Yliuniversaali

Yliuniversaali is a modern Finnish neologism that translates roughly to "ultra-universal." In philosophical discourse, it is used to describe a notion, property, or framework that purportedly lies beyond conventional universal predicates—an idea intended to capture a level of generality that would hold across all possible worlds or all domains of discourse. The term is not part of standard ontology or logic, and its precise meaning is defined by its author in context. Some writers present yliuniversaali as a meta-universal that subsumes ordinary universals, while others treat it as a heuristic for exploring the limits of universal quantification and cross-world applicability.

From yli- (over, beyond) and universaali (universal); the word is attested in modern Finnish. Its usage is largely confined to scholarly discussion, speculative fiction, and online philosophy debates in Finnish.

Because it is a neologism with no formal entry in major philosophical taxonomies, yliuniversaali has no fixed definition. Readers encounter varying interpretations, often depending on the author's aims: as a thought-experiment to test the scope of universality, or as a label for an encompassing principle that would unify disparate universals.

See also: universals, generality, hyperobject, universal quantification, modal realism. References: scarce; found in contemporary Finnish sources and fiction, with no universally accepted definition in English-language philosophy.