- In metaphysics,
particulars or
individuals are
usually contrasted with universals.
Universals concern features that can be
exemplified by
various different...
- In
common law jurisdictions, a bill of
particulars is a detailed, formal,
written statement of
charges or
claims by a
plaintiff or the
prosecutor given...
-
categories of being. An
influential division is
between particulars and universals.
Particulars are
individual unique entities, like a
specific apple....
- In pleading,
further and
better particulars refers to
additional information required to
provide sufficient accuracy with
respect to a set of pleaded...
- In
political science,
political particularism is the
ability of
policymakers to
further their careers by
catering to
narrow interests rather than to broader...
- forces: The "Palace Guard", who
guarded the palace. The "Cable
Street Particulars", a
political police force concentrating on
discovering "plots" against...
- be
grouped into
basic types, such as the
categories of
particulars and universals.
Particulars are unique, non-repeatable entities, like the
person Socrates...
- from
their particulars), nor do they
really exist within particulars as universals, but
rather universals really exist within particulars as particularised...
- tied down with
further particulars in a way
which would limit its case
unfairly at the trial. Thus
where there are
particulars unknown to the prosecutor...
-
exist in
space and time. Most
nominalists have held that only
physical particulars in
space and time are real, and that
universals exist only post res,...
