particularization

The idea of particularization (takhsîs) includes implicitly an understanding of possible worlds that are different from this.

Guess Who Was At The Party? 2009

That is the inquisitorial body provided by our fundamental law to subpoena documents required in advance of a criminal trial, and in preparation of an indictment or its particularization.

Is That Legal?: Are Department of Justice Criminal Subpoenas Unconstitutional 2007

The process of particularization makes one of several alternatives actual.

Guess Who Was At The Party? 2009

That is the inquisitorial body provided by our fundamental law to subpoena documents required in advance of a criminal trial, and in preparation of an indictment or its particularization.

Is That Legal?: February 2007 Archives 2007

What this means for research on virtual worlds is that we must be wary of how the drive to fight for resources may prompt researchers to claim that a certain kind of project (generalization, particularization), or a certain kind of methodology is "scientific" (or, one might imagine, "humanistic," although the comparative lack of money makes this more of a localized danger!)

May 2008 2008

What this means for research on virtual worlds is that we must be wary of how the drive to fight for resources may prompt researchers to claim that a certain kind of project (generalization, particularization), or a certain kind of methodology is "scientific" (or, one might imagine, "humanistic," although the comparative lack of money makes this more of a localized danger!)

Maxwell's Hammer 2008

Prophetic knowledge relies on the functions of the faculty of imagination, i.e., its mimetic function and its role in the particularization of universal truths.

Suhrawardi Marcotte, Roxanne 2007

¦ If we understand ourselves as the particularization of something universal, this means, at the same time, that we can understand others as different particularizations of something universal.

The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006

This sense of corporeal dis-possession is perhaps no more strongly evident than in Schelling's decision to characterize individual embodiment, which is to say the point of maximal particularization at the farthest distance from the universal affairs of spirit, in terms of an originary craving or addiction [die Sucht].

Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000

To enter this occupation creates for him at one and the same time association and isolation, equalization and particularization.

Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956