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As [[vernacular|commonly used]], '''individual''' refers to a [[person]] or to any specific object in a collection. In the 15th century and earlier, and also today within the fields of [[statistics]] and [[metaphysics]], '''individual''' means "[[indivisible]]", typically describing any numerically singular thing, but sometimes meaning "a person". (q.v. "The problem of [[proper name]]s"). From the seventeenth century on, '''individual''' indicates separateness, as in [[individualism]]. (Abbs 1986, cited in Klein 2005, p.26-27)

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==The individual as a force==

==The individual as a force==

The property that all individuals have in common is that the forces tend to change their [[World (philosophy)|world]] in order to obtain and maintain a specific state.  

The property that all individuals have in common is that the forces tend to change their [[World (philosophy)|world]] in order to obtain and maintain a specific state.  

== References ==

== References ==

* Gracia, Jorge J. E. (1988). Individuality: An Essay on the Foundations of Metaphysics. : State Univ of New York Pr.  

* Gracia, Jorge J. E. (1988). Individuality: An Essay on the Foundations of Metaphysics. : State Univ of New York Pr.  

*Klein, Anne Carolyn (1995). ''Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self''. ISBN 0-8070-7306-7.

*Klein, Anne Carolyn (1995). ''Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self''. ISBN 0807073067.

==See also==

==See also==

* [[Consciousness]]

* [[Consciousness]]

* [[Cultural identity]]

* [[Cultural Formation]]

* [[Person]]

* [[Personality|Person]]

==Recommended==

==Recommended==

''Myths of Modern Individualism'' by Ian Watt, published by Cambridge University Press

'''''Myths of Modern Individualism''''' by Ian Watt, ISBN 0521585643 published by Cambridge University Press

"In its way this is as original a work as Watt's famous first book, The Rise of the Novel. It is a work of great maturity, testimony to the intelligence and civility of its author." Frank Kermode

"In its way this is as original a work as Watt's famous first book, ''The Rise of the Novel'' (ISBN 0520230698). It is a work of great maturity, testimony to the intelligence and civility of its author." Frank Kermode

"Ian Watt's [[magisterial]] Myths of Modern Individualism is a critical account--historical, cultural, moral and aesthetic--of how four great Western myths have insinuated themselves into the actualities of modern culture. Like all of Watt's work this is a remarkable work of the historical imagination, sympathetic without being fussy, erudite but always deft, analytic but very warm and witty. This is a book everyone should read." Edward Said

"Ian Watt's [[magisterial]] Myths of Modern Individualism is a critical account--historical, cultural, moral and aesthetic--of how four great Western myths have insinuated themselves into the actualities of modern culture. Like all of Watt's work this is a remarkable work of the historical imagination, sympathetic without being fussy, erudite but always deft, analytic but very warm and witty. This is a book everyone should read." Edward Said

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