The view that only particulars exist, and more specifically that the properties and relations of particulars are themselves particulars, not universals (see Platonism).
A particular has a certain unity in space and time. It cannot appear as a whole at separated places simultaneously (though its parts may be scattered, as when an object is dismantled for repair), and normally (there are exceptions) can appear as a whole at different times only if those times form a period, without gaps.
Particulars need not be solid, and their parts may constantly change (shadows and flames are particulars, and so are events and actions). They are primarily contrasted with universals, which can be instantiated; no particular can be instantiated.
Particularism is similar to nominalism, but a particularist might accept abstract particulars like numbers, seen – as a Platonist would see them – as abstract objects; they are particulars in so far as they vacuously satisfy (that is, do not positively break) the requirements about being unified in space and time: one can have instances of twoness or duality, which is a universal, but not instances of two. A nominalist, however, would normally reject numbers seen as abstract objects.
Source:
D M Armstrong, Universals and Scientific Realism, 1, Nominalism and Realism (1978)
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
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- 2.1 Moral Particularism
- 2.2 All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (Prayers of Awe)
- 2.3 Ethics without Principles
- 2.4 Grounds for Respect: Particularism, Universalism, and Communal Accountability
- 2.5 Rethinking Jewish Philosophy: Beyond Particularism and Universalism
- 2.6 The Politics of Place: Montesquieu, Particularism, and the Pursuit of Liberty
- 2.7 We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel
- 2.8 got Particularism? - Men's Flexfit Baseball Cap Hat, Dark Navy, Large/X-Large
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Moral Particularism
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- 332 Pages - 02/15/2001 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)
All the World: Universalism, Particularism and the High Holy Days (Prayers of Awe)
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- English (Publication Language)
- 288 Pages - 08/19/2014 (Publication Date) - Jewish Lights (Publisher)
Ethics without Principles
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- Dancy, Jonathan (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 229 Pages - 08/24/2006 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press, U.S.A. (Publisher)
Grounds for Respect: Particularism, Universalism, and Communal Accountability
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- Giselsson, Kristi (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 248 Pages - 08/17/2012 (Publication Date) - Lexington Books (Publisher)
Rethinking Jewish Philosophy: Beyond Particularism and Universalism
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- Hughes, Aaron W. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 170 Pages - 02/03/2014 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)
The Politics of Place: Montesquieu, Particularism, and the Pursuit of Liberty
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- 264 Pages - 11/15/2017 (Publication Date) - Univ of Rochester Pr (Publisher)
We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel
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