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But these terms are employed elsewhere (Analytica Post I cap. 11.

sect. 10) to denote respectively particulars and universals The

latter are so denominated, because principles or laws must be

supposed to have existed before the instances of their operation.

Justice must have existed before just actions, Redness before red

things, but since what we meet with are the concrete instances

(from which we gather the principles and laws), the particulars

are said to be [Greek: gnorimotera aemin]