Will and Individual

Individual is properly a quantifier that is pervasively, often misleadingly, used as a substantive.  For example, Schopenhauer does occasionally use it to quantify Will.  But for the most part, he treats it as a characterless entity, one of an indefinite number of such entities.  However, it may be that what is a logical error is not extrinsic to some of the content of his Moral doctrine.  For, the aim of the doctrine is to escape suffering, to which a diagnosis of and a specific corrective of are the means.  Now, he offers two diagnoses of suffering: caused by Will, or caused by Individuation, i. e. Selfhood.  Accordingly, a two-fold corrective for suffering consists in a denial of Will and a denial of Self.  That double denial is expressed in his abstraction of 'Individual' from 'Individual Will', i. e. in his abstraction of a characterless entity from a quantity, which, in the context, illustrates the Will-less, Self-less product of taking that corrective--a virtual nonentity, i. e. an anonymous subject of perception, a mere function, like Kant's 'I think'.  There are, thus, two logical errors that Schopenhauer commits--that a Will-less entity is alive, and that a Self-less being can still function as a subject.