Sentence examples for particulars themselves from inspiring English sources

Secondly, and perhaps more decisively, the kinds or universals that we think and talk about are not features of the particulars themselves but are merely fictions.

Perception has the special status of giving direct access to the real, whereas conceptual thought is, in an important way, distorted (bhrānta) because it "superimposes" universals that aren't actually there in the particulars themselves.

Duran points out that feminists, as well as pragmatists, are often less interested in universal generalities and notes that an emphasis on particulars as well as "relations and connections become almost more important than particulars themselves" (1993, 166).

Of course, the fact that we do use terms like "cow" non-arbitrarily may easily lead us to think that the term must have corresponding real "grounds for its application" (pravṛttinimitta), and that cow particulars themselves are grouped in a natural kind due to their common essential properties.

Hence, states of affairs that contain contingently existing particulars are themselves contingent existents.

It can be argued that Dharmakīrti and his fellow Buddhists are best understood as trope theorists: the powers/properties that make up particulars are themselves particular entities, differing according to each location in space and time (see section 2.2.2).

Two themes in particular lend themselves to fuzzy effusiveness.

Tall runners, in particular, found themselves acquiring new friends.

Theo and Matthew, in particular, throw themselves into humorless, either/or arguments -- Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix?

Young men, in particular, staked themselves for adventure, money and chance.

Europe in general and Germany in particular see themselves as pioneers of low-carbon energy.