title: Particularism
text: # Particularism
  
  Particularism may refer to:
  
  * Epistemological particularism, one of the answers to the problem of the criterion in epistemology
  * Historical particularism, an approach in anthropology
  * Moral particularism, the view that there are no universal moral principles
  * Multicultural particularism, the belief that a common culture for all people is either undesirable or impossible
  * Political particularism, the politics of group identity that trumps universal rights
  * Religious particularism, name given to the phenomenon of Americanism in the apostolic letter Testem benevolentiae nostrae
  