that from which no part is missing; so, whether you speak of it as "a whole" or as "having parts", in either case the one would consist of parts and in that way be many and not one. But it is to be one and not many. Therefore, if the one is to be one, it will not be a whole nor have parts. And, if it has no parts, it cannot have a beginning, or an end or a middle, for such things would be parts..