Multiplicity

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

Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind...

"Why did the chicken cross the road?" is a very well-known English riddle, to which there are a multiplicity of answers.

Bratislav, of Croatian ancestry, believes in "extraterrestrials" or ETs, a term he prefers over "aliens." Both he and I agree that such beings may be millions or billions of years more advanced than "we" humans are. He mentions that some of them have the power of invisibility or they can phase in and out of walls like ghosts. I ask Bratislav if he thinks that the ETs are from the same universe as ours and if he believes in the "multiverse," the multiplicity of different universes. Thereof, he is not so sure.

Without consideration of the colony character of Malaysia in terms of its consistent interculturation with imperial and neoimperial power, multiplicity can easily be mistheorised as representing Saidian Orientalism or expatriates—such theorisations can be drawn from superficial reinterpretations of Taiwan's Tenryuubito phenomenon in recent years and Japan's Datsu-A Ron statement during the Meiji period.

The coronary Thorns did not only express the scorn of the imposers, by that figure into which they were contrived; but did also pierce his tender and sacred temples to a multiplicity of pains, by their numerous acuminations.

They saddled themselves with the handling of light flows on a multiplicity of branch lines, and they sacrificed the speed, reliability and low cost of through train operation, even over the main arteries of the system.

The combined events — the negotiations and the benefit — were a major step in addressing the multiplicity of concerns the group had been talking about for all those years at Doyles.

In short , we are not replacing the old idea that “entropy is the logarithm of the multiplicity (times Boltzmann's constant). ” Rather , we are retaining that idea but are generalizing the notion of multiplicity.

... the maximum-entropy (maxent) solution is the one which occurs with greatest multiplicity.