Peculiar aside in Wilfrid Sellars' fourth Dewey lecture: discussing distributive form of an abstract entity as simply a collection of the relevant tokens (descriptors?) exhibited by the objects within that class. Offhand, perhaps joking, mention that there is a "Middle Eastern" version that can't be uttered.
In this way of thinking about it (my parsing here, not Sellars), the name of the abstract entity that breathed o'er Eden would then be a novel expression standing for a certain set of tokens or descriptors common to everything in existence? #notexpert #musing