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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a plural individual" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion
It could be used in contexts discussing concepts like collective identities or groups that are treated as singular entities. Example: "In this study, we explore the idea of a plural individual, where multiple identities coexist within a single person."
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34(b) is true in Teapots, since Teapots contains a plural individual that contains exactly two teapots.
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The singular predicate F will be neither cumulative (i.e., it is not true of the joins which are Fs, for example, if 'F' is 'Man', and a, b, and c are each a man, then the plural individual a ∪p b is not a man), nor is it distributive over the proper parts of the atoms of A1 (more on this later).
The stuff of a is part of the join of the stuff of a and b (as s< as ∪s bs), but the stuff of a is not a pp-part of a ∪p b, nor is the plural individual a ∪p b an s-part of as ∪s bs ∪s cs.
Suppose they each satisfy the singular predicate F, and have no proper parts which are F. Suppose there is a join relation which combines particular individuals to make plural individuals only (call it a plural join or 'p-join').
This allows us to develop an additional lattice structure alongside that of the plural individuals.
The current paradigm in early childhood education emphasizes on the importance of nurturing by all shared environment conceived to influence the growth and development of a child as a plural, unique and purposeful individual.
Fish is used as a singular noun, or as a plural to describe multiple individuals from a single species.
Using a plural word to describe an individual might feel like cause for pedantic wrist-slapping, and so your Pavlovian response is to avoid it.
They (see what I'm doing here) have decided that the word could now be used as a singular pronoun, flexing the English language so a plural could denote a singular, genderless, individual.
A convention arises only when individual members of a plural subject jointly accept some fiat.
A single person is by definition not a plural.
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