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This paper tries to locate W. Sellars's ontology of absolute processes, presented in his Carus Lecture, within the ontological tradition concerning individuals. We use J. J. E. Gracia's work on individuality as a frame of reference, which comprises the summary and criticism of various ontological standpoints, found in from the ancient to the contemporary literature. Gracia' own view，very similar to what he calls strong derivative nominalism in the tradition, allows us to hold that when exemplified, features themselves can be seen as individuals, which we will call individuated features. After refurbishing the view with respect to the roles of the space-time and local spatio-temporal structures, we use the ontology of individuated features for the framework to understand Sellars' absolute processes.