Ward substantiates this claim with a quotation from Bradley's Appearance and Reality (1893), where he admits that the 'fact of fragmentariness,' that is, why the One appears in the form of a multiplicity, cannot be explained.
It argues that such mechanisms labour under three specific difficulties: a proliferation of operational forms, a multiplicity of underlying objectives, and the irreducible uncertainty arising from the counterfactual nature of the baseline.
Rather, one forms a multiplicity of variations of what is given, and while maintaining the multiplicity, one focuses attention on what remains unchanged in the multiplicity; i.e., the essence is that identical something that continuously maintains itself during the process of variation.
The "Franciscan" theories of matter and form in spiritual creatures, of the multiplicity of forms, and of illumination combined with experience are probably Alexander's adaptations of similar theories of the Augustinian and other traditions.
If the functional is also invariant under this group action, The multiplicity of critical points can be obtained form the multiplicity of index.
Let us for a moment strip from our simple purpose the confusion that results form a multiplicity of detail and from millions of written and spoken words.
There remains always an antithesis between the multiplicity of forms of the divine manifestations and the unity that can be thought or posited behind them.
Dr. Illouz, who teaches at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, found that elements of the black church, like its emotionality and focus on justice, "pervade 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' which has taken on the vocation of relieving a multiplicity of forms of suffering through the use of speech infused with the rhetorical style of black preachers".
His approach likewise manifested appreciation of the multiplicity of forms of knowledge, in particular the cleavage between theoretical understanding of the world as it necessarily is, and practical knowledge of how to deliberate about acting in relation to whatever "could be otherwise".
Metabolic or cell signalling pathways are examples of biochemical networks exhibiting possible complex dynamics in the form of steady-state multiplicity, sustained oscillations or even deterministic chaos.
