The naturalist version of the being of things is as determined by a net of laws which apply to kinds of things which kinds are themselves determined by these same laws. In this way particularity is ideality, only that the relevant ideas are somehow impersonal; or that the being of things is the being of the laws which is the being of mind. This end of metaphysics earnestly dissolves all particularity such as could only have been the particularity of the self. The self, properly, cannot be made up out of kinds of things, substitutable functional elements, that is just what it means to be self - an absolute particularity.  And if the self is absolutely particular then so are all things else, and laws do not apply, only seem to in a certain declension.