The book analyzes more than two thousand years of philosophy in comprehending universals. The history of travel to universals began with the search for universals as locally common - with totemic classifications and led to the creation of the first universal code of culture - to ancient philosophy, to the advancement of invariant meanings of changeable phenomena - eidos and ideas in Plato, forms and matter in Aristotle. For the first time in domestic literature, fierce battles in medieval philosophy over universals are analyzed in detail, starting with Augustine and ending with Okkam and Suarez.