We feel and perceive no particular things, save bodies and modes of thought.
The ideas of particular things, or of modes, that do not exist, must be comprehended in the infinite idea of God, in the same way as the formal essences of particular things or modes are contained in the attributes of God.
Men would in vain heap up names of particular things, that would not serve them to communicate their thoughts.
Aristotle rejected the metaphysical subsistence of ideas, but thought they might still be essences operative in nature, if only they were identified with the life or form of particular things.
Further, sciences and definitions are concerned with species themselves, but not as these are in particular things, because there is no science or definition of particular things.
Thirdly, forasmuch as these types are applied to particular things as depending on their causes; which mode belongs to the lowest hierarchy.
Particular things as such are perceived in the understanding and through the senses; the one-sided impression upon the latter is at once completed by the imagination.
We can only have a very inadequate knowledge of the duration of particular things external to ourselves.
We have now to consider the relation of particular things one to another.
Wherefore a knowledge of particular things should be sought for as diligently as possible.
For the understanding cannot descend from universal axioms by themselves to particular things, since axioms are of infinite extent, and do not determine the understanding to contemplate one particular thing more than another.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "particular things" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
