There is the further question of whether our reference to a particular can be secured through the exclusive use of purely universal or general terms, or whether in every case the identification of a particular by a speaker making references rests ultimately on his own environment, and thus on the use of expressions of a demonstrative, or egocentric, or token-reflexive sort.
Thus particulars such as historical events, material objects and persons are individuals, but so too are such non-particular individuals as qualities, properties, numbers and species. Anything whatsoever can be identifyingly referred to, can appear as a logical subject, can appear as an individual.
The central question raised by Strawson in Part I of Individuals concerns the ways in which reference to individuals and particulars is obtained in the practices of ordinary language.
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