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    The One is not a being — Carmelics
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    The One is not a being

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    • 1.Nothing positive can be predicated of the One
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    • 2.Being is a positive predicate
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    • 3.Therefore being cannot be predicated of the One
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    • 1.Parmenides' Way of Truth establishes that what can be thought or spoken of must in some sense be, otherwise thought has no object.
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    • 2.The One, as the principle from which all else derives, must possess at minimum the being of a referent when it is posited and reasoned about.
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    • 3.Therefore the claim 'the One is not a being' is self-undermining, since asserting it grants the One enough ontological standing to be the subject of a true predication.
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    • 1.Plotinus argues in Enneads V.4 that even a principle beyond Being must be the source of Being, and a genuine source cannot be wholly exterior to what it produces.
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    • 2.A principle that shares nothing with being—not even productive power directed toward being—loses any explanatory connection to the beings it supposedly generates.
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    • 3.Speusippus's apophatic move thus severs the causal-generative link the One is invoked to explain, making the theory explanatorily vacuous rather than admirably transcendent.
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    The first is an argument from the assumed simplicity of the One. This corresponds to things we can find in Plato. In what is frequently referred to as the ‘first hypothesis’ of Plato’s Parmenides (137c-142a), Parmenides begins (137c) by laying it down that the One cannot be many; he then argues, first (137cd), that if the One is, it must be without parts, since otherwise it would be many. Subsequent argumentation makes this a proscription against all attempts to predicate anything positive of th
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