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    A body circumscribed by a limit is 'one' because the limi... — Carmelics
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    A body circumscribed by a limit is 'one' because the limit specifies that everything inside it is the body and everything outside it is not the body.

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    • 1.A limit surrounds the body on all sides.
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    • 2.Everything inside the limit is the body; everything outside the limit is not the body.
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    • 3.The body is therefore the only thing inside its limit, yielding a sense of 'one' as having no partner within that limit.
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    • 1.A limit or boundary is itself a spatial entity requiring its own delimitation, generating an infinite regress of bounding limits.
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    • 2.If unity requires a limit, and the limit itself lacks a prior limit, then the ground of unity is itself indeterminate, undermining the account.
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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphic analysis shows that a body's unity derives from its form, not its spatial boundary, since matter alone admits of arbitrary re-division.
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    • 2.Two bodies sharing a contiguous surface share a limit, yet remain numerically distinct, demonstrating that limits alone cannot individuate or unify bodies.
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    When Fârâbî says that there are senses of “one” which do not presuppose any plurality and which have no opposite except a bare contradictory—so that there is no sense of “many” opposite to these senses of “one”, although there is a sense of “many” arising from each such sense of “one”—he is interested above all in the sense of “one” as “circumscribed by a quiddity” (first introduced #17). Fârâbî does not assume that the reader will already be familiar with this analysis of a special sense of “on
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