Single (philosophy)

The single (philosophy) is a philosophical category of dialectics . It is in a dialectical relationship with the categories of the special and the universal . Like these categories, it reflects the various objective connections of the world, as well as the stages of cognition of these connections. In the real world, the unit is determined by the presence of each material object only with its inherent properties, which allow it to be distinguished from other objects ^[1] . The singular always indicates the difference of material objects from each other and therefore it always appears as special ^[2] . The process of knowledge in science begins with a single. Every open new phenomenon or material object is always initially perceived as a single one. When these phenomena or material objects are repeatedly detected, their properties are recognized as common to a group of objects ^[3] .