He insists that general moral rules are "founded upon experience of what, in particular instances, our moral faculties, our natural sense of merit and propriety, approve, or disapprove of" (159; see also 160 and 320), and that our notions of right and wrong bottom out in these reactions to particular cases (320; see also 187 and Gill forthcoming).
Though the thesis that sound laws were absolutely regular in their operation (unless they were inhibited in particular instances by the influence of analogy) was at first regarded as most controversial, by the end of the 19th century it was quite generally accepted and had become the cornerstone of the comparative method.
Moreover, however useful (or pleasant), the practices informed by those conventions may be in general, particular instances of the behavior they describe may not be.
It would be open to the CDPP, in making independent decisions on this matter, to have regard to any public interest in the communication of information in particular instances as the CDPP considers appropriate".
The Court has never held that the "public policy" conclusions it reaches as to the appropriateness of absolute immunity in particular instances are not subject to reversal through congressional action.
This definition can be understood in terms of particular instances of some property or in terms of the universal the property itself.
According to particularism, his favored method in epistemology, we should use particular instances of knowledge and justification as our guide in formulating an epistemology (Chisholm 1973 and 1989, pp. 6-7).
Hence, it is important to provide means to help designers to search in big models for particular instances of some variable schema of UML models (design patterns) they construct.
