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    It is not the case that The one must be acknowledged to be both one and many.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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