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Single Idea 17692
[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One
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Full Idea
No serious and principled deduction of the phenomena from the One has ever been given, or looks likely to be given.
Gist of Idea
We can't deduce the phenomena from the One
Source
David M. Armstrong (What is a Law of Nature? [1983], 11)
Book Ref
Armstrong,D.M.: 'What is a Law of Nature?' [CUP 1985], p.15
A Reaction
This seems to pick out the best reason why hardly anybody (apart from Jonathan Schaffer) takes the One seriously.
The
20 ideas
with the same theme
[nature is really a single perfect object]:
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1640
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The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one
[Xenophanes, by Plato]
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424
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Reason tells us that all things are one
[Heraclitus]
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555
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People who say that the cosmos is one forget that they must explain movement
[Aristotle on Parmenides]
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226
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The one is without any kind of motion
[Parmenides]
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5081
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There could be movement within one thing, as there is within water
[Aristotle on Parmenides]
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1509
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The one can't be divisible, because if it was it could be infinitely divided down to nothing
[Parmenides, by Simplicius]
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20900
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Defenders of the One say motion needs the void - but that is not part of Being
[Parmenides, by Aristotle]
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1505
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Reason sees reality as one, the senses see it as many
[Aristotle on Parmenides]
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453
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Reality is symmetrical and balanced, like a sphere, with no reason to be greater one way rather than another
[Parmenides]
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21823
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The principle of 'Friendship' in Empedocles is the One, and is bodiless
[Empedocles, by Plotinus]
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2062
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The only movement possible for the One is in space or in alteration
[Plato]
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231
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Everything partakes of the One in some way
[Plato]
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233
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Some things do not partake of the One
[Plato]
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616
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It doesn't explain the world to say it was originally all one. How did it acquire diversity?
[Aristotle]
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21814
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How can multiple existence arise from the unified One?
[Plotinus]
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21816
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Soul is the logos of Nous, just as Nous is the logos of the One
[Plotinus]
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21815
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Because the One is immobile, it must create by radiation, light the sun producing light
[Plotinus]
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6406
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Reality is one, because plurality implies relations, and they assert a superior unity
[Bradley]
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17692
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We can't deduce the phenomena from the One
[Armstrong]
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12246
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What makes Parmenidean reality a One rather than a Many?
[Oderberg]
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