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
Signs of the Flesh Signs of the Flesh Signs of the Flesh: An Essay on the Evolution of Hominid Sexuality is a 1985 book about human sexuality by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere. The work received positive reviews and has been called a classic. Rancour-Laferriere provides an interdisciplinary discussion of human sexuality, drawing on psychoanalysis, sociobiology, and semiotics. He aims to make claims that are falsifiable and thus scientific in the sense understood by the philosopher Karl Popper. He provides evaluations of the work of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and the biologist E. O. Wilson, and considers topics such as the female orgasm and homosexuality.