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  • I have way too much web surfing backlog to recall the particulars.

    Angry Zen Master 2008

  • I've heard of others having such problems, but don't recall the particulars.

    Patterico's Pontifications 2008

  • My impending Alzheimer's mind cannot recall the particulars.

    Patterico's Pontifications 2008

  • β€œin themselves,” the problem of universals comprehends questions about the relation between universals (if such there be) and the things that are not universals, the things usually called particulars.

    Metaphysics van Inwagen, Peter 2007

  • Locke's implication that "every particular thing" does not require a "distinct name" must have galled Blake, who in Jerusalem repeatedly stresses the importance of "particulars."

    Unlocking Language: Self-Similarity in Blake's _Jerusalem_. 2001

  • The entities which are arranged I shall call "particulars."

    Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Bertrand Russell 1921

  • a grave injustice, and give no kind of particulars.

    The Crimson Blind

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