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    The one must be acknowledged to be both one and many. — Carmelics
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    The one must be acknowledged to be both one and many.

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    • 1.D1 and D8, taken together, yield the result that the one must be both one and many.
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    • 2.The same acknowledgment that the one is both one and many is needed to overcome the problematic results of D4.
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    • 1.Parmenides' own eleatic monism holds that genuine predication of contradictory properties to a single subject produces unintelligible discourse.
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    • 2.If 'the one is many' is coherent, then the foundational Parmenidean prohibition against non-being dissolves the very dialectical framework generating the deductions.
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    • 3.A claim derived from antinomian deductions that mutually cancel cannot ground a positive metaphysical thesis without begging the question against Eleatic logic.
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    • 1.Frege's context principle requires that number attributions attach to concepts, not objects, making 'the one is many' a category error rather than a deep truth.
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    • 2.If oneness and manyness are second-order properties applying to how we carve the world conceptually, the Parmenidean deductions conflate levels of predication, invalidating the synthesis.
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    Yet another alternative is that detailed logical analysis of the Deductions reveals arguments sufficient to establish both that the one is and, importantly, that principles such as Purity-F and Uniqueness are false. As Rickless (2007, 136–137 and 211) argues, Purity-F is a background premise of both D1 and D4. Taken together, then, D1 and D2 are sufficient to establish that a contradiction follows from the hypothesis that the one is, on the assumption that Purity-F is true. That is, D1 and D2 to
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