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individual 1. Biology a. a single animal or plant, esp as distinct from a species b. a single member of a compound organism or colony 2. Logic a. an object as opposed to a property or class b. an element of the domain of discourse of a theory |
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Thus 'man' is predicable of the individual man, and is never present in a subject. The influence of ancestry, however, is important in helping forward any individual or race, if too much reliance is not placed upon it. The argument of the Republic is the search after Justice, the nature of which is first hinted at by Cephalus, the just and blameless old man-- then discussed on the basis of proverbial morality by Socrates and Polemarchus--then caricatured by Thrasymachus and partially explained by Socrates--reduced to an abstraction by Glaucon and Adeimantus, and having become invisible in the individual reappears at length in the ideal State which is constructed by Socrates. |
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