particularization

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The doctrine of emanation also regards the world as a process of particularization.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

This summary must suffice for preliminary orientation, while the detailed division, particularization, modification, and limitation of these general points must be left for later treatment.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

There is no need for further particularization; for we now come to the year of the definitive peace between the mother country and the new republic.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various

It cannot be comprehended by any kind of particularization or distinction.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

For the Discourse concerning Ridicule and Irony is largely a particularization, a crude but powerful reworking of Shaftesbury’s Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour.

From A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) by Collins, Anthony