If stimulus-response patterns in organisms constitute proto-knowledge without Kantian categories, then universality and singularity are not necessary conditions for epistemic objects.
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Proto-knowledge(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
Something that's like knowledge or acts like knowledge, but might not be the real thing—similar to how a map resembles the actual place it represents.
Stimulus-response patterns(as used in philosophy of mind and epistemology)
Automatic reactions an organism has to things it senses—like how your hand pulls away from a hot stove without you thinking about it.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
singularity(General Relativity; the authors note that giving a precise general definition is a vexed issue)
A 'place where things go bad' in one way or another in a space-time model; for example, a region where curvature increases without bound or is undefined and Einstein's equations cease to hold
universality(Distinguishing the nature as such from its mode of universality)
Not a constitutive mark of the common nature itself, but its unique and inseparable property