category of being

He does not neatly fit into the categories of beings Tolkien created.

Speculatively, there are several other likely categories of beings where personhood is at issue.

According to Plato, there are two categories of beings who do not do philosophy:

Of course, philosophers rarely just assume that minds occupy a different category of beings from physical objects.

It might work for only certain categories of beings, such as characters with specific skills, moral ethos, or a particular in-game race or gender.

The intermixture of the two categories of beings produces combinations which may be externally recognized.

There might, she thought, be as many categories of beings more advanced than humans as there are between us and the ants, or maybe even between us and the viruses.

The term "Demon Lord" is really more of a title than a category of beings, and deities such as those mentioned meet the criteria for bearing such a title of ruling over one of the Abyss' layers.