 His position, then, is that only individuals exist, but that a collection of individual φ-things can be—and indeed are in scientific demonstrations—regarded as having a common nature, being-φ. This is just to say, for example, that the universal predicate ‘… is a human’ is applied equally and rightly to Peter and Paula by a discerning mind; but that is not to say that there is a universal in which they equally partake.