 Instead of using a white horse as an example to show that it’s possible to treat some horses as not of the kind horse, it would be simpler and clearer to use something of another kind, such as an ox, and show that some horses can be treated as “the same” as that thing and different from other horses. For instance, draft horses could be deemed “the same” as oxen, grouped together with them as draft animals, and distinguished as different from riding horses or racehorses. For that matter, anything and everything can be summed into a whole and deemed a single “indicated” or “horse.” The text’s point is to trivialize Gongsun Long’s theses. For some purpose or other, by some standard or other, white horse can indeed be considered different from horse. But in light of the pragmatic stance adopted by “Equalizing Things,” there is nothing puzzling or remarkable about this. 