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Full Idea
Individuals appear to enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations.
Gist of Idea
Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations
Source
Alan McMichael (The Epistemology of Essentialist Claims [1986], VIII)
Book Ref
'Midwest Studs XI:Essentialism', ed/tr. French,Uehling,Wettstein [Minnesota 1986], p.48
A Reaction
This is a very significant chicken-or-egg issue. The remark seems to offer the vision of pre-existing general laws, which individuals then join (like joining a club). But surely the laws are derived from the individuals? Where else could they come from?