ABSTRACT

In fact, to apply to the Absolute, one in many is more an absurd category than not. It is not clearly intelligible. It may be taken to mean that the one becomes the many in succession or that the one exists in the many. The first alternative is not possible. For, in the above example, if T has become X and T's nature as such has changed, we cannot say that when X becomes Y, it is T that has become Y. Nor is the second alternative possible, as the many do not exist in one and the same time. If they do, there would be no change.