Sentence examples for unique particulars from inspiring English sources

He said: "I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation – the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence... pure Being, a bundle of minute, unique particulars in which, by some unspeakable and yet self-evident paradox, was to be seen the divine source of all existence".

Universals are therefore only conventionally real, lacking any intrinsic nature, whereas unique particulars are the ultimately real, and exist intrinsically.

(3) The third argument proves the momentary instants of the unique particulars from the inference of existence (sattvānumāna).

Four closely interrelated arguments provide the defence of the Sautrāntika's claim that ultimately real unique particulars are momentary instants.

(1) Ultimately real unique particulars are momentary instants because their perishing or destruction is spontaneous to their becoming.

(3) Unique particulars are not denotable by language since they are beyond the full grasp of any conceptual mind (śabdasyāviśaya).

5.The terms svalakṣaṇa is variously rendered into English as "own-natured," "self-defining characteritics," "unique particular," "real particular" etc.

They are declared as the definitions of the unique particular (svalakṣaṇa) and the universal (sāmāṅyalakṣaṇa)" (Dharmakīrti PVK Tshad ma ce 118b).

First, Dharmakīrti assumes that an object, or a unique particular, is perceived in its entirety and no part of it is left unperceived.

And in this arousal one grows attached to the beloved not as a unique particular but to the Form of beauty instantiated in the loved one.

This analysis of respect draws explicitly from a feminist ethics of care and has been influential in feminist and non-feminist discussions of respecting persons as unique, particular individuals.