Universals and particulars
idea · 2 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
al-juzʼiyyāt · al-kulliyyāt · الجزئيات · الكليات · al-juzʼī · al-kullī · juzʼiyyātuhā · kullīyat al-insān · particulars · the description of particularity
spoken of as
1 expressionThe universal and the particular1 mention
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah (Arabic)
And when the intellect apprehends the universal matter and knows it, it knows of necessity the particular that falls under it.
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The particular and the universal, whose conversion into one another by intellectual separation is the epistemic gain of the first similitude.
the particulars universal things (1), stripped of matters, firmly rooted in the essence of the soul and acquired by it.
And when the intellect apprehends the universal matter and knows it, it knows of necessity the particular that falls under it.
and likewise it apprehends (5) the universal meanings and the particular cognitions after its parting from the body.
Risālat al-Wāridāt
The pair kulliyyāt and juzʼiyyāt, universals and particulars: used first to describe the treatise's own method, as the working out of particulars from universals its teacher merely intimated, and then as the specific object of divine knowledge whose mode is in dispute.
He gave us intimations of universals whose particulars these are, and of signs whose clear proofs these are — and that in a time of dearth in wisdom, so that he was like a rain sent to revive that blessing.
The imitators of the philosophers (*ḥukamāʼ*) have said — and it is the view their chief adopted — that the Creator's knowledge, exalted be He, of universals (*kulliyyāt*) is by the impression of forms (*irtisām al-ṣuwar*) in His essence.
and intelligible forms, though they be qualified by a thousand qualifications, do not preclude being truly predicated of many, and so are universal.