multeity
Britishnoun
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Origin of multeity
C19: from Latin multus many, perhaps formed by analogy with haecceity
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In the state a power or agency must never appear and act as a formless, inorganic shape, i.e. basing itself on the principle of multeity and mere numbers.
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Perhaps the empty numerical unity must be predicated of the world: but such abstract predication of it has no further special interest; on the contrary, a mere numerical unity just means that its content is an infinite multeity and variety of finitudes.
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Just as the number and variety of mental representations is no argument for an extended and real multeity in the ego; so the “real” outness of parts in the body has no truth for the sentient soul.
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Multi-, Mult-, many, as in multiply, multeity.
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Multeity, mul-tē′i-ti, n. manifoldness, very great numerousness.
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