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It is not the case that World-unity requires the unity of a determinate totality of all possible experience, which exceeds any finite compositional act.
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The concept of 'all possible experience' may be incoherent or meaningless—we lack criteria for what counts as possible vs. actual.
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World-unity might require only structural consistency of actual experience, not a determinate totality of every possible experience.
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Infinite domains don't require a single deterministic totality; they can be unified through formal relations without complete enumeration.
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Experience has no natural boundary; any finite collection of experiences presupposes a background of possible experiences beyond it.
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Totality requires closure—a system that includes all members of a kind. Finite acts cannot achieve closure over an infinite domain.
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World-unity demands coherence across all possible perspectives. This coherence cannot emerge from piecemeal composition alone.
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