"distinct particulars" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English
It is typically used to refer to individual items or facts that distinguish one thing from another, either within a larger group or in comparison to another entity. For example, "The distinct particulars that separate cupcake recipes from muffin recipes can be difficult to identify."
But the universal is supposed to constitute the substance of all of its distinct particulars, as a whole, at the same time.
Like Dharmakīrti, Śāntarakṣita relies on a judgment of similarity in functional efficacy among distinct particulars as conceptually construed to generate the idea.
Scotus is able to claim transitivity for the relation of real sameness since, as we have seen, he believes that the common nature instantiated in two distinct particulars does not itself have real (i.e. numerical) identity (see Tweedale [1999], 488).
If we allow that Helen and Andromache are presumed to be distinct particulars in virtue of their matter, we can further distinguish the particulars and the form-copies, i.e. the-beautiful-in-Helen versus the beautiful-in-Andromache.
But faces that would normally have blurred past had become distinct, particular.
Stories like these fulfill Sherman's goal of humanizing soldiers by enabling us to see them as individuals with distinct, particular responses to psychological and physical wounds.
Although the interpretation of Plato's theory remains a matter of scholarly controversy, there is no doubt that his promulgation of it initiated an enduring dispute about the existence of universals often conceived, in opposition to particulars, as entities, such as general properties, which may be wholly present at different times and places or instantiated by many distinct particular objects.
If there are non-substantial particulars, then Socrates' whiteness is a numerically distinct particular from Plato's whiteness.
Substances, Locke famously holds, "are such combinations of simple Ideas, as are taken to represent distinct particular things subsisting by themselves" (II, XII, 6).
Third, they are intrinsic to the particulars that instantiate them which, all too roughly, means that they characterize what those particulars are like, independently of what any other distinct particular is like.
The difference between the mental acts illustrated (between hoping and believing) Husserl would term a difference in their 'quality.' Husserl was to re-interpret his notions of act-matter and quality as components of what he called (in Ideas [1913] 1983) the 'noema' or 'noematic structure' that can be common to distinct particular acts.
