Neither one nor many "neither one nor many" more intensively (throughout sixty-two of its ninety-seven stanzas) than any other text in Buddhist literature. This argument is one of a series of proofs used to demonstrate that phenomena are without real existence. Neither one nor many The 'neither one nor many' argument (Wylie: gcig du 'bral ba'i gtan tshigs) is an argument employed by different philosophers and spiritual traditions for various reasons. The argument and its permutations and antecedents, particularly the "problem of the One and the Many" as charted by McEvilley (2002: pp. 23–66) in his "magnum opus", has an ancient pedigree in the
Inanimate whose Inanimate whose The inanimate "whose refers to the use in English of the relative pronoun "whose" with non-personal antecedents, as in: "That's the car "whose" alarm keeps waking us up at night." The construction is also known as the whose" inanimate, non-personal "whose, and neuter "whose. The use of the inanimate "whose" dates from the 15th century, but since the 18th century has drawn criticism from those who consider "whose" to be the genitive (possessive) only of the relative pronoun "who" and therefore believe it should be restricted to personal antecedents. Critics of inanimate "whose" prefer constructions such as those