The usual path of art-to-people is from particular experience to universal recognition—I saw a rose!
The usual path of art-to-people is from particular experience to universal recognition — I saw a rose!
Images of children suffering form the ultimate emotional argument, compelling us to move from sentiment to action, from the particular to the universal, from passivity to engagement.
Rather, it is a matter of moving from the particular to the universal, but without a universal at hand by which this move can be justified.
In a telephone interview, Mr. Thomas said the remains of the Leiden church carried several meanings, from the particular to the universal.
Reflective judgment is seen as the capacity to ascend from the particular to the universal without the mediation of determinate concepts given in advance; it is reasoning about particulars in their relation to the universal rather than reasoning about universals in their relation to the particular.
He has far less to say about this than deduction, doing little more than characterize it as "argument from the particular to the universal".
Aristotle discusses arguments from the particular to the universal (epagôgê) in the Topics and Posterior Analytics but does not provide a theory of them.
Induction, in logic, method of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal.
Robert Grosseteste (1175 1253 C.E ., an English scientist, statesman, and bishop, elaborated on Aristotle's ideas and laid the basic framework for the scientific method: generalizing from particular observations to a universal law, and then using the universal law to predict particular observations.
JL: Philosophy moves from the particular to the abstract on its way toward universal truths, whereas fiction is concerned with the practical, the concrete.
