This, and not French-Canadian particularism, is at the root of our present difficulties.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Canada?] Reference

Universalism vs particularism is an academic debate for people who are bored with masturbating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Universalism and Particularism in Neoconservatism] Reference

French-Canadian particularism is only the most dramatic expression of a particularisin that afflicts the whole of our country.    From Wordnik.com.  [What is Canada?] Reference

Lamott is cited as a writer who captures well the style of narrative nonfiction called "particularism", coined by Howard Freeman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne Lamott biography] Reference

It was only in Franconia that all territorial patriotism or "particularism" was shaken off and the idea of the unity of the German peoples received as a political goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [German Culture Past and Present] Reference

'particularism' that likes to make out that we are so unique that we cannot be compared with anyone else at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference

The natural law view rejects wholesale particularism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics] Reference

Davidson, Donald | moral particularism | practical reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Reason and the Structure of Actions] Reference

This is an anti-particularism position, not a racist one.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Confirmation Emerges That Mitt Said No Muslims In Cabinet] Reference

The core of particularism is its insistence on variability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Particularism] Reference

Moral particularism, as just defined, denies their latter role.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Reasoning] Reference

Related Entries metaethics | moral particularism | supervenience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Non-Naturalism] Reference

On the methodism-particularism distinction, see Chisholm (1982).    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference

The ancient exclusiveness and the national particularism had been overcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference

Those who suppose they can seriously damage particularism by specifying a few.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Particularism] Reference

Yet, one may slightly revise Teller's definition of particularism as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics] Reference

Simply to insist that this is so must be to beg the question against particularism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Particularism] Reference

But all this still raises a spectre typical of modern anxieties over particularism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A lecture given at a conference on 'The place of Covenant in Judaism, Christianity and Jewish-Christian relations' Centre for the Study of Jewish Christian Relations, Cambridge] Reference

The question is how did economics move from universalism to a form of particularism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sympathy From the Devil] Reference

If particularism is true, there is not much room for moral principles of either sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Particularism] Reference

There is a practical difference between particularism and generalism, but it is not this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Particularism] Reference

What is at issue between particularism and generalism is the nature of moral rationality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Particularism] Reference

Bauer traced the emergence of mass society, based on conformity and inchoate particularism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bruno Bauer] Reference

The mere possibility that particularism should be true is of some importance in the dialectic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Particularism] Reference

Men animated by a spirit of particularism, exclusiveness, and pride, are continually clashing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

Their particularism is pushed to such an excess that they make enemies of the whole human race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

But I think trying to rid the world of all ethnic, cultural, and religious particularism is a silly endeavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Israel is after Azmi Bishara — and why it matters | Jewschool] Reference

However, it seems that both Nagel's and Parfit's versions of the distinction do not sit well with particularism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reasons for Action: Agent-Neutral vs. Agent-Relative] Reference

Whether holism or particularism is correct may depend on the correct view of the nature of mental representations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrow Mental Content] Reference

The Baath regime in Iraq has officially abolished such surnames, on the grounds that they encourage local particularism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thief of Baghdad] Reference

So the availability of such principles is compatible with Dancy's canonical formulation of particularism, according to which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reasons for Action: Agent-Neutral vs. Agent-Relative] Reference

Sibley's particularism and generalism, by contrast, both have to do with judgments falling in between descriptions and verdicts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Concept of the Aesthetic] Reference

For the idea of more and less objective perspectives is not obviously incompatible with even very radical forms of particularism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reasons for Action: Agent-Neutral vs. Agent-Relative] Reference

Both Snorri and Saxo were preoccupied with the ideals of national unity, strong royal power, and resistance to baronial particularism.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Norway] Reference

The dialectic of the First Meditation features a confrontation between particularism and methodism, with methodism emerging the victor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference

Some moral particularists seem also to believe that moral particularism implies that moral principles cannot soundly play a useful role in reasoning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Reasoning] Reference

What is currently known as moral particularism is the view that moral reasons, or well-grounded moral facts, can exist independently of any basis in a general principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Reasoning] Reference