The universal and the particular, A Human Strategy, Matt Berry, aphorism 284

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The universal and the particular are two different manifestations of one reality.  That is all.  It is the human experience that makes a duality of nature.  It could be said that (1) the Ideal, (2) the cerebral consequence of repetition, and (3) the particular are three separate manifestations ... if it were not that the Ideal is merely an appropriation of the natural phenomenon of repetition ... a natural error (and every human’s illusion) being that this manifestation is independent of the human experience preceding it — whereas countless instances have in the meanwhile played upon the senses, have worked in the memory … have fallen into tendencies with the same precision with which types of sand are separated in a gold miner’s pan ... have appeared identical from deficiencies in human perception … even disappearing due to repetition-blindness … have gained the force of habit and conditioning, yielding a sensation of a distinct “substance” at the withdrawal of these accustomed instances.  They have become a separate memory, which is now set beside the other things out of which it was fashioned, the Ideal and the Particulars.  



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