PROF. RICHARD F. CARTER

With the Nature of Things’ general persisting condition of partial order, more than one oneness becomes applicable … applicable not just to our Sense of Everything but also to our Grasp of the materiality in human behavior… where Involve can create oneness (C-105).

“One” can point TO many things. Consider, for example, “single,” “particular,” “person,” “same,” “identical,” “unique” … and “unit,” “unity,” “universe,” “universal” … and “equal,” “equity,” “equality.” Its usages as a prefix (“uni-“; “equ-“) add to the problem.

“One,” the conceptual term, is overworked. It exemplifies the overload that a concept can place on a word’s work. (Another curse of concepts [C-124].) When the term is Involved in, and can best be Grasped by reference to, a tertiary TELL (C-9), theoretical explication (C-85) becomes necessary to sort out the several meanings (C-81).

Thus meanings of “one” can, and do, vary by (more or less theoretical) perspectives on what is being talked about:

• There is the oneness of universality of particulars, often taken as generality enough.
• There is the oneness of counting (C-108: between 0 and 2).

• There is the oneness of a Realized ordering (C-93: Kt; C-108, C-111).
• There is the oneness of a discovered order (C-93: Kf).
• There is the oneness of the singularity requisite (VIII: for the minding-moving relationship).
• There is the oneness of balance (XI; C-120: x/y =1; C-122: V/R=1 and V=>R/R=>V =1).
• There is the oneness of functional union (C-23: as one; C-112 … re interdependency).
• There is the oneness of functional equivalence (I:Pbeh).
• There is the oneness of reciprocity (App. I: [the logic of] Help).
• There is the oneness of barter and trade (C-6).
• There is the oneness of kinship (e.g., family, humanity).
• There is the Sense of materiality as a oneness comprising all of body and step [aka matter and energy] consequentiality (C-131).
• There is the oneness of an entity with sides or facets (e.g., coins, walls, crystals).
• There is the oneness of the Nature of Things’ general persisting conditions – a generality of Everything rather than a universal re particulars (III).
• There is the oneness of a “bit,” an informational condition re “one or the other.”
• There is the oneness of similarity (e.g., concept, simile, likeness).
• There is the oneness of self (e.g., alone; “supergappiness” [III:Sd).
• There is the oneness of story – whose incompleteness we find frustrating.

(c) 2015 R.F. Carter