A particularism that secretly relies on such proto-principles is not genuinely particularist but merely a disguised form of moderate generalism (cf. Dancy's critics, e.g. Hooker in 'Moral Particularism: Wrong Method').
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Guidelines or rules that are informal or preliminary—not quite fully-formed principles, but acting like them in practice.
generalism(Contrasted with particularism in metaethics)
The view that a moral feature which made a difference in one case must make the same kind of difference in other cases, licensing cross-case inference as a matter of necessity.