Peculiar is defined as something that is different and unusual. An example of peculiar is a state fair sideshow with strange people. The definition of peculiar is something important or of special interest. An example of peculiar is the specific picture that gets pointed out on a tour.

Something peculiar is notably unusual. If your friend starts saying strange things you don’t understand, ask her why she’s suddenly become peculiar. Peculiar comes from the Latin peculiaris, meaning one’s own, or personal. It also had the meaning of something unlike others, special, or remarkable.

: of, relating to, or found in (only one person, thing, or place) a custom peculiar to America.

Particular sentence example

1. The crowd seemed clustered at one particular spot.
2. She had no particular concern about that part.
3. As if it were no particular problem, he said they had lost vital signs in flight a couple times.
4. He paid particular attention to the March expense accounts and itineraries.

1. My first introduction to physics in general, and in particular, mass, momentum, motion and deceleration.
2. He gets an amazing amount said about life in general and in particular.
3. The timing suggests that the elections in general, and in particular, the EFF’s call for nationalisation, influenced their drafting.

For example, the type dog (or doghood) is a universal, as are the property red (or redness) and the relation betweenness (or being between). Any particular dog, red thing, or object that is between other things is not a universal, however, but is an instance of a universal.

A sentence dealing with individual constants in which some constant, say , appears one or more times and which is true for every individual in the domain of individuals to which. belongs. SEE ALSO: Existential Sentence.

Stress is an inevitable part of life and a common universal life truth. Stress can represent different things to different people, but no one escapes it. Traffic jams, taxes, bereavement, divorce, rejection, and lack of control in our lives are just a few of the catalysts for stress.

A universal category is one that predicates All or No items, as apposed to just some items or are least one item, which is called a particular category. Especially is your talking about universal categorical statements like those designished by Aristotle.

Universal properties occur everywhere in mathematics. By understanding their abstract properties, one obtains information about all these constructions and can avoid repeating the same analysis for each individual instance.

A universal construction is simply a definition of an object as “the unique-up-to-isomorphism object satisfying a certain universal property”.

Universal, in philosophy, an entity used in a certain type of metaphysical explanation of what it is for things to share a feature, attribute, or quality or to fall under the same type or natural kind. A pair of things resembling each other in any of these ways may be said to have (or to “exemplify”) a common property.

The problem of universals is an ancient question from metaphysics which has inspired a range of philosophical topics and disputes. Philosophers agree that human beings can talk and think about universals, but disagree on whether universals exist in reality beyond mere thought and speech.

A truth is considered to be universal if it is logically valid in and also beyond all times and places. Hence a universal truth is considered logically to transcend the state of the physical universe, whose order is derived from such truths. In this case, such a truth is seen as eternal or as absolute.

A universal form ‘is nothing but the mental generalization of the particular form’ (p. 10), ‘is a creature of the understanding’ (p. 45). However, once he begins to discuss Aristotle’s account of thinking it turns out that a universal such as the species man ‘is the class, Man… and this…

1 : including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception especially : available equitably to all members of a society universal health coverage. 2a : present or occurring everywhere.

Nominalism, coming from the Latin word nominalis meaning “of or pertaining to names”, is the ontological theory that reality is only made up of particular items. It denies the real existence of any general entities such as properties, species, universals, sets, or other categories.

Nominalism is the view that mathematical objects such as numbers and sets and circles do not really exist.

As nouns the difference between nominalism and realism is that nominalism is (philosophy) a doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects while realism is a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.

Ethnic nominalists express beliefs rooted in people and place, where ‘Christian’ often means a specific nationality and culture, be that English, American, or Scandinavian. For ‘aspirational’ nominalists, being ‘Christian’ confers goodness, respectability and a sense of belonging to those for whom they long.

Aristotle offers a theory of a world of individual things having aspects, both individual and universal. Accordingly Aristotle ends up being a sort of nominalist in his study of being qua being —yet a peculiar sort of nominalist . For the mental states themselves reflect the real structure of the aspects.

In medieval philosophy, the French philosopher and theologian Roscellinus (c. 1050 – c. 1125) was an early, prominent proponent of nominalism. Nominalist ideas can be found in the work of Peter Abelard and reached their flowering in William of Ockham, who was the most influential and thorough nominalist.

What is the opposite of nominalism?

realism	pragmatism
practicality	level-headedness
clear-sightedness	matter-of-factness
saneness	sanity
common sense

1 : a theory in philosophy intermediate between realism and nominalism that universals exist in the mind as concepts of discourse or as predicates which may be properly affirmed of reality. 2 often capitalized : conceptual art.

scholasticism in American English (skəˈlæstəˌsɪzəm ) 1. [ often S-] the system of logic, philosophy, and theology of medieval university scholars, or schoolmen, from the 10th to the 15th century, based upon Aristotelian logic, the writings of the early Christian fathers, and the authority of tradition and dogma.

Platonism is the view that there exist such things as abstract objects — where an abstract object is an object that does not exist in space or time and which is therefore entirely non-physical and non-mental. Platonism in this sense is a contemporary view.

Patristic Platonism. From the middle of the 2nd century ce Christians who had some training in Greek philosophy began to feel the need to express their faith in its terms, both for their own intellectual satisfaction and in order to convert educated pagans. The philosophy that suited them best was Platonism.

Plato and Socrates define death as the ultimate separation of the soul and body. They regard the body as a prison for the soul and view death as the means of freedom for the soul. Considering Plato and Socrates definition of death, in the life of a true philosopher, death does not occur when bodily functions cease.

Platonism, any philosophy that derives its ultimate inspiration from Plato. Platonism sees these realities both as the causes of the existence of everything in the universe and as giving value and meaning to its contents in general and the life of its inhabitants in particular.

Platonism is characterized by its method of abstracting the finite world of Forms (humans, animals, objects) from the infinite world of the Ideal, or One. Neoplatonism, on the other hand, seeks to locate the One, or God in Christian Neoplatonism, in the finite world and human experience.