And hence too it is, that various wills of various men can be good in respect of opposite things, for as much as, under various aspects, they wish a particular thing to be or not to be.
In irrational animals the determination of the appetite to a particular thing is merely passive: whereas consent implies a determination of the appetite, which is active rather than merely passive.
Pleasure and its contrary pain have the same object, but under contrary aspects: because if the presence of a particular thing be the object of pleasure, the absence of that same thing is the object of sorrow.
The choice of a particular thing to be done is as the conclusion of a syllogism formed by the practical intellect, as is said Ethic.
This, I think, is what we commonly mean by saying that we have no reason to believe in the existence of a particular thing which we do not perceive.
It implies that it is just as necessary that anything, which is in fact a part of a particular whole, should be a part of that whole, as that any whole, which has a particular thing for a part, should have that thing for a part.
A general principle is always a statement made, not about a particular thing, but about a whole class of things, that is, about a concept.
If there were, we should be able to find it somewhere, and it would then be a particular thing instead of a universal.
Specific legacy (Law), a bequest of a particular thing, as of a particular animal or piece of furniture, specified and distinguished from all others.
Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the.
But these notions of quality are all general, although here applied to building up the image of a particular thing.
In such a process of acquiring knowledge about a particular thing, it is to be noted that the acquisition depends upon two important conditions: 1.
The senses receive impressions from a particular thing.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "particular thing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
