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Such a particularisation of his statement would have at once reduced it to absurdity.

This is an informal version of the logical rule known as existential introduction (also known as particularisation or existential generalization).

In The Death of Nelson, as in Billy Budd, tragedy is distilled through the juxtaposition of stillness with harsh activity, communal effort and individual particularisation.

Accordingly, as you convert your plan into a series of sections or paragraph topics, you should think carefully about the logical or rhetorical relationship between them: e.g. cause and effect; particularisation and specification; illustration (if so, of what exactly?).

He was created as God's vicegerent while the entire world is a particularization of what exists in him.

All such pathologies registered the move towards the particularization of social problems and their solutions.

Tchaikovsky now aimed for a greater degree of particularization.

These results are nothing more than a particularization of the first isomorphism theorem in universal algebra.

This "particularization" on Sunday was excellent.

Particularization - Concrete forms produced by Spirit.

In a particularization of this theme, he questions the effect and strength of Christianity in an Oriental society.

She also ascribes some of the popularity of these to their "particularization of experience," which is infinitely harder to find in Hollywood product.

Mr. Morris wrote that his intention was to record, "the history of art as the history of the particularization of weight."

"As far as I can see," returned Vance evenly, "your particularization concerning the lady is innocent of reasoning.

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While circumscription was initially defined in the first-order logic case, the particularization to the propositional case is easier to define.

In this way particularization is viewed as operating in the service of categorization, rather than as the counterpart, which provides the possibility of negation.

This kind of generalization versus specialization (or particularization) is reflected in the mirror of the contrasting words hypernym and hyponym.

Now, with his hands tied, Jimmy had only his best cold-teenager particularization to aim at Roy Moss as they climbed down to the lower decks.

Symbols, for Tillich, do not wholly contain the Ultimate and, in his view, there can be no finite particularization of the Ultimate or Holy.

This is referred to as a form of idolatry; it is the particularization or objectification of the Ultimate and consequently a form of demonization.

The equation of the Gibbs Adsorption Isotherm can be derived from the "particularization to the thermodynamics of the Euler theorem on homogeneous first-order forms."

In Canada, the defence must disclose an alibi defence with sufficient time for the authorities to investigate the alibi, and with sufficient particularization to allow for a meaningful investigation.

The Court concluded that the Chain Broadcasting Regulations were simply the particularization of the Commission's conception of the "public interest" sought to be safeguarded by Congress in enacting the Communications Act.

Each stage is characterized by a simultaneous increase in abstraction and particularization, which are held in tension with one another, and each is taken to present greater difficulties for the subject attempting to resolve these into its own development.

Reviewing it in The Times Book Review, Anthony Burgess called it an even mix of "intelligent high-journalese exposition of generalities" and "totally trustworthy particularization," and advised travelers to take it along on visits.

It has been said (with no great profundity of criticism) that English fiction is chiefly remarkable for its power of particularization of character, and that where French work, for instance, will present ideas, English will present persons.

Truth cannot be confined to traditional religions, nor can any particular religion claim to have a monopoly of Truth, for where that kind of particularization of the Ultimate takes place, we are face to face with what Tillich calls demonization.

Moscovici (1983: 32-3) does not entirely neglect particularization but, interestingly, he treats it as a means of anchoring or classification, rather than as a means of 'turning round' our schemata, to use Bartlett's appropriate phrase (Bartlett, 1932).