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Full Idea
Being is one.
Gist of Idea
Being is one
Source
report of Melissus (fragments/reports [c.443 BCE]) by Aristotle - Topics 104b23
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Posterior Analytics and Topica', ed/tr. Tredennick,H/Forster,ES [Harvard 1960], p.301
A Reaction
I can only really understand this in terms of physics, as the belief that ultimately there is one simple theory which explains everything. That project doesn't look terribly promising, despite the lovely simplifications of modern physics.