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To begin with, let us assume that our universe of dis-
course is single, by which I mean that it embraces all the objects
of a single category. It may, for example, consist of the
totality of all persons, actual or artificial, each of which will be
a single individual, although an artificial person, or a single corporation,
may consist of a number of natural persons of the universe.
The singularity is thus purely of the logical or semiotic kind and
has nothing to do with the atomic theory, or any other truth of
physics. Or the universe may consist of the totality of single
existent things and single collections of such things. Or the
universe may consist of all the days of history. Or it may consist
of all the persons and things imagined by Shakespeare in the comedy
of The Tempest.