Mains, Robin: Without Diversity: Singularity, Nothingness and Infinity

Plotinus called it the One. Parmenides called it Being. Śaṅkara called it nirguna Brahman. Heidegger called it das Nichts. Maimonides and the Kabbalistic tradition called it Ein Sof. Pseudo-Dionysius called it the divine darkness beyond all attribution. This appendix argues that these traditions converge on a single structural condition — the absence of internal distinction — encountered under three descriptive aspects. Singularity (as oneness) presents the condition under the contrast with mult