Topic 2: General Particular

Table of Contents

1. General Particular: Introduction
2. General Particular
   1. What you will learn in this Topic
   2. General Statements and Particular Examples
   3. Task 1: Providing Examples
   4. Task 2: Signalling Examples
3. Giving Details
4. General (abstract) and Particular (concrete)
5. Order of General/Particular
6. How concrete facts change abstract theories
7. Task 8 Exam Questions
8. Initial Problem Revisited

What you will learn in this Topic

In this topic you will learn:

• To recognise when you need to make General Statements (using abstract language)

• To recognise when you need to give Particular Examples (using concrete language)

• That students have to learn the standard (abstract) theories which underpin their subjects and relate them to the real (concrete) world by giving examples.

• That scholars have to devise new theories, when the particular (concrete) facts do not fit the standard theory.