I've written a lot on that epistemic question. I take a pragmatic, neo-Kantian view of our understanding of patterns. So the generality is partly subjective and partly objective. In so far as we simplify the objective interrelations because we're interested in focusing only on some of them, the divisions between things are imposed humanizations of the inhuman. But those simplifications aren't sheer fantasies if they pass practical tests. The adequate concept of any type, however, would have to encompass the cosmic whole (all the relations between things, cutting across the universe), so it would amount to a mystical state of omniscience. I suspect we have intimations of that godhood in peak states of consciousness, including negative ones.