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单词 principle of individuation
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principle of individuation

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principle of individuation [after post-classical Latin principium individuationis (from 13th cent. in British sources)] . Cf. principium individuationis n., essence n. 7, haecceity n.
a. Metaphysics. That which makes a particular entity distinguishable as an individual from others of the same kind; that which makes an entity the unique individual that it is.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or fact of uniting or being united > [noun] > so as to form an individual or organic unity
principle of individuation1665
[1628Principium of individuation [see sense 2a]. ]
1665 J. Beaumont Some Observ. upon Apol. H. More iv. 33 The old body is revived, because a new body exactly like it is substituted in its room, and united to the soul of that old body which is the Principle of Individuation.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vii. xi. 154 None but those who had nicely examined, and cou'd themselves explain, the Principle of Individuation in Man, or untie the Knots and answer the Objections, which may be raised even about Humane Personal Identity.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 175 Essence, in its primary signification, means the principle of individuation, the inmost principle of the possibility of any thing, as that particular thing.
1870 A. Bain Mental & Moral Sci. (new ed.) App. 25 Thomas had declared that..what marked off one individual from another—the so-called principle of individuation—was the matter.
1943 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 4 189 The Thomistic interpretation of the individual, viz., that matter is the principle of individuation and that all men have the same form, would logically have made immortality impossible.
2004 R. Scruton Death-devoted Heart v. 127 I am distinguished from other individuals by a principium individuationis—a principle of individuation—which is that of spatio-temporal continuity. It is only in space and time that individuals are distinguishable.
b. Chiefly Metaphysics. The principle by which the constituent parts of something are integrated into a single whole.
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1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. iii. 46 The inward Frame of Man considered as a System or Constitution: Whose several Parts are united, not by a physical Principle of Individuation, but by the Respects they have to each other.
1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. iv. iv. 321 Duns Scotus..placed the principle of individuation in ‘a certain positive determining entity’, which his school called Haeccity, or thisness. ‘Thus Peter is an individual, because his humanity is combined with Petreity.’
1889 St. G. Mivart Truth 390 Without the presence of some immaterial principle of individuation, our different mental acts..could not be united so as to constitute an act of judgment.
1999 M. M. McCabe Plato's Individuals (new ed.) i. ii. 49 The walrus..has a strong principle of individuation—its organic complexity—which makes division lethal for it.
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