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approach in which he showed how particulars give rise to concepts through a causal chain. This involves particulars generating perceptual images in the...

repeatable entities that characterize particulars, like the color red. Modal metaphysics examines what it means for something to be possible or necessary. The...

states in some sense. States of affairs are contingent on particulars, and therefore have something behind them. One summary of the Whiteheadian actual entity...

structures consisting of objects ("particulars"). A fact may be that an object has a property or that it stands in some relation to other objects. In addition...

can be referred to as a substratum or a thing-in-itself. Substances are particulars that are ontologically independent: they are able to exist all by themselves...

aforementioned translation, says that a universal, if it were to exist, has to apply to several particulars entirely. He also specifies that they apply simultaneously...

rules seem to be important because they were linked to theories of descent to particulars and ascent from particulars. When I say I want to buy a cup I've...

It is opposed to realist philosophies, such as Platonic realism, which assert that universals do exist over and above particulars, and to the hylomorphic...

difficulty of bare particulars was illustrated by John Locke when he described a substance by itself, apart from its properties as "something, I know not what...

Form. The young Socrates did not give up the Theory of Forms over the Third Man but took another tack, that the particulars do not exist as such. Whatever...

judgment we seek to find unknown universals for given particulars; whereas in determinative judgment, we just subsume given particulars under universals...

particulars, but according to a governing appeals case from c. 1980 this is not necessary. On May 16, the DA's office argued that it did not need to elaborate...

property, e.g. the lawn's staying wet. Events are usually defined as particulars that, unlike universals, cannot repeat at different times. Processes...

with something that was like Masterpiece Theatre, [that] very polite Sunday evening BBC kind of thing, and I [was] determined to make something quite...

or “particulars that are directly present to the mind”.[clarification needed] Direct acquaintance only refers to the individual's direct access to some...

existence is dependent on the particulars that exemplify them. Nominalism and conceptualism are the main forms of anti-realism about universals. A traditional...

THE DISCOVERY OF AN UNKNOWN DEAD MAN IN A COPSE OF BRUSH NEAR YONKERS PARTICULARS OF THE CASE" (PDF). Retrieved 3 April 2017. Asbury, Herbert. Gangs of...

property-universals), objects (substantial particulars), and modes (relational particulars and property-particulars, also known as "tropes"). (See Lowe's "Recent...

the obligation to give notice and particulars to other parties when proposing to adduce hearsay evidence (Section 47A); the power to call witness for...

technique considered has to do with rules. For these reasons, there will always be room and need for intuition, consideration of particulars and discrete judgment...