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As between objects that are also subjects, because they are not only real for something else but are such that other things can be real for them, there is a further difference in ontological type insofar as some of them can, while others of them cannot, be real for the same things that are real for them. The first type of subjects are properly called "individuals," the second type "events." Although both types of subjects are not only real for something else but are such that other things can be real for them, "events" are such that the things for which they are real are always different from the things that are real for them, while "individuals" are such that they can be real for the same things that are real for them. Among such other differences as may be involved in this difference in ontological types is a difference between types of identity--the identity—the identity of events being strict, while the identity of individuals is genetic.There is yet another difference in ontological type between particular individuals for which some things are real and the universal individual for which all things are real. Of course, there is the corresponding difference between the two types of individuals that they, in turn, are real either for only some things, in the case of all particular individuals, or for all things, in the case of the one universal individual.

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