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Anindividualis abodieor a speceefic object.

Etymologie[eedit|eedit soorce]

Fae the 15t yeirhunder an earlier (the day athin the fields ostatisticsanmetapheesicsan aw)individualmeant "indivisible",fir uisual descrieved ony numerically parteecular thing, but whiles meanin" a bodie ". Fae the 17t yeirhunder,individualhaes indicatit separateness, as in individualism.[1]

  1. Abbs 1986, cited in Klein 2005, pp. 26–27