This one has struck something with me, particularly that last bit—I'm not sure I entirely agree, but then it's something I've got to meditate on some more.
But my reasoning is mathematical more than anything else. I know Edward Butler's polycentric take on Proclean metaphysics stresses the recondite nature of The One (almost, IMHO, to the breaking point), but this would suggest that The One is 0, which for me always means "The Void," an absence. I associate The One with 1 itself—unity, in that this number is part of all numbers, with the exception (?) of 0 (which, in spite of modern insinuations, I don't regard as a number, but rather as absence).
But that's about the full extent of my thinking on this subject, for now. Good thought-provoking post.
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But my reasoning is mathematical more than anything else. I know Edward Butler's polycentric take on Proclean metaphysics stresses the recondite nature of The One (almost, IMHO, to the breaking point), but this would suggest that The One is 0, which for me always means "The Void," an absence. I associate The One with 1 itself—unity, in that this number is part of all numbers, with the exception (?) of 0 (which, in spite of modern insinuations, I don't regard as a number, but rather as absence).
But that's about the full extent of my thinking on this subject, for now. Good thought-provoking post.