Principle of individuation

The principle of individuation explains how space and time make beings appear multiple and separate although, for Schopenhauer, they participate in one will.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 136 passages across 9 works, including An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Psychological Types, The Birth of Tragedy. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: principe d’individuation, principium individuationis