Category, or Example? (What came first?)

[Ichthus77 (Ichthus77 (formerly She™))]

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Drive-By Sermon: If You Are Saved...Christ Is Your "Brain"

What came first (what is ontologically prior substance?), the category (ontology) or its members/examples (existantiation/action)? If we do not allow for an empty category (we must always ask “What referent populates this category?”), or for a category-less member/example (we must always ask, “What category is this populating?”) the answer has to be both, and the category is “merely” essential (to the observer) “until” it is both (actually, all three: category/substance, member/example/action, e…