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multiplicity

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being multiple, manifold, or various; a state of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or objects.

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Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Isaac Newton

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. Augustine of Hippo

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths. Miguel Syjuco

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves. Erwin Schrödinger

The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way. Erwin Schrödinger

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. Jane Jacobs

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