But of what sort of unities?
Nevertheless, Unity (or a set of Unities) is an important principle and it has something to do with our concepts of color.
Rather, they are themselves essential unities, and indeed not predicable at all.
Husserl claims that we actually do perceive melodies in opposition to an earlier view of Brentano, viz., that we with the help of our imagination or recollection construct or reconstruct such unities out of a synthesis of mental acts.
But just as the rainbow results from the presence of genuine unities, the water droplets (to continue the metaphor, even if this is not true when speaking with Leibniz in metaphysical rigor), so do the bodies of the natural world result from the genuine simple substances.
Vattimo's philosophy is therefore the project of a postmodern hermeneutics, in contrast to the Parisian thinkers who do not concern themselves with meaning or history as continuous unities.
The henads fulfill this function, for as participated unities they bridge the gap between the transcendent One and everything that comes after it.
Many of his ideas about defeat, enhancement, mitigation, and organic unities are further developed in Chapters 6, 7, and 8 of [B&IV].
The universe would thus have no first and no last reference point, no origin and no unities following it.
In particular, such contradictions arise when essentially opposed concepts are thought together as unities.
In short, the method of relations is a way of doing metaphysics with strong Platonic and Kantian overtones: the fluctuating and conflicting plurality of sensible experience is "related" back to intelligible, "speculative" unities that allow us to organize the plurality in experience.
