The phrase "a multiplicity of objects" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a large number or variety of items or entities in a particular context.
Example: "The museum displayed a multiplicity of objects from different cultures, showcasing the diversity of human creativity."
Alternatives: "a variety of objects" or "a multitude of objects".
But the idealists held that to talk about reality as if it were a multiplicity of objects is to falsify it; in the end, only the whole, the absolute, has reality.
This in turn entailed a multiplicity of objects of veneration, ranging from other buddhas, such as Amitabha and Vairocana, to bodhisattvas, such as Avalokiteshvara, and eventually even to symbolic representations, such as scrolls reproducing the title of the Lotus Sutra, an early Mahayana scripture, in the calligraphy of the Japanese monk Nichiren (1222 82).
If consciousness knows a multiplicity of objects, then it must not be singular by definition.
In a variety of ways, proponents of these schools claim that consciousness is truly singular and yet can be a knower of a multiplicity of objects.
The impression of reality's consisting of a multiplicity of related objects is a result of the separations imposed by thought; in fact 'the Absolute is not many; there are no independent reals.' (All quotations from here on are from Appearance and Reality, Ch. XIV).
Intellect could not suffice as a first principle of all because the complexity of thinking (thinker and object of thought and multiplicity of objects of thought) requires as an explanation something that is absolutely simple.
Yet those multiple buttons enable a multiplicity of actions at your fingertips that even a multitouch interface doesn't approach.
But with "new realism", he wants to have it both ways: he argues that there are really facts in themselves, that they are not illusory; but also that there is a multiplicity of discourses, each of which has an object domain.
