Particularist

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  • particularist: follower of one of several intellectual approaches
    • epistemological particularism: the belief that one can know something without knowing how one knows that thing.
    • Moral particularism: the view that there are no moral principles and that moral judgement can be found only as one decides particular cases.
    • religious particularism or Americanism: a belief in the separation of church and state. Branded a heresy by Pope Leo XIII.