Full Idea
Any individual thing must be a thing of some general kind - because, at the very least, it must belong to some ontological category.
Gist of Idea
Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category
Source
E.J. Lowe (Two Notions of Being: Entity and Essence [2008], 2)
Book Reference
'Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics', ed/tr. Le Poidevin,R [CUP 2008], p.35
A Reaction
Where does the law that 'everything must have a category' come from? I'm baffled by remarks of this kind. Where do we get the categories from? From observing the individuals. So which has priority? Not the categories. Is God a kind?