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 pronoun for non-personal antecedents, as in: The earliest known objections to the inanimate "whose" date from the late 18th century. In 1764, the English grammarian Robert Lowth disapproved of the inanimate "whose" except in "the higher Poetry, which loves to consider everything as bearing a personal character". The English James Buchanan in his "Regular English Syntax" of 1767 considered inanimate "whose" an incorrect construction that occurs "in the lower kind of poetry and prose", but accepted it in "solemn poetry" when used for personification. In his "Plain and Complete Grammar" of 1772, Anselm Bayly accepted use of the inanimate "whose".