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    It is not the case that The One is not a being

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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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    • 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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