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Now we cannot hold that the unit is a plurality, because the unit is indivisible; but the view that it is derived from a part of plurality involves many further difficulties, because (a) each part must be indivisible; otherwise it will be a plurality and the unit will be divisible, and unity and plurality will not be its elements, because each unit will not be generated from pluralitysc. but from an indivisible part of plurality—which is not a plurality but a unity. and unity.
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(b) The exponent of this theory merely introduces another number; because plurality is a number of indivisible parts.i.e., to say that number is derived from plurality is to say that number is derived from number—which explains nothing.
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Again, we must inquire from the exponent of this theory whether the numbersc. which plurality has been shown to be. is infinite or finite.
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There was, it appears, a finite plurality from which, in combination with Unity, the finite units were generated; and absolute plurality is different from finite plurality. What sort of plurality is it, then, that is, in combination with unity, an element of number?
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We might ask a similar question with regard to the point, i.e. the element out of which they create spatial magnitudes.
