Citations:individual

English citations of individual

• 1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive:

  ... as if all names had been (what none but proper names really are) marks put upon individuals; and as if there were no difference between a proper and a general name, except that the first denotes only one individual, and the last a greater number.

• 1911, “Logic”, in Encyclopædia Britannica:

  It seems likely that man has arrived at the apprehension of a whole individual, e.g. a whole animal including all its parts, and thence has inferred by analogy a whole number, or class, e.g. of animals including all individual animals; and accordingly that the particular analogy of one individual to another has given rise to the general analogy of every to each individual in a class, or whole number of individuals, contained in the second premise of induction.

• 1970, John R. Searle, Speech acts‎^[1]:

  To put the same point differently, suppose we ask, 'Why do we have proper names at all?' Obviously, to refer to individuals.

• 2006, Steven French, “Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy‎^[2]:

  It is typically held that chairs, trees, rocks, people and many of the so-called ‘everyday’ objects we encounter can be regarded as individuals.