Graham Priest Presents An Original Exploration Of Philosophical Questions Concerning The One And The Many. He Covers A Wide Range Of Issues In Metaphysics—including Unity, Identity, Grounding, Mereology, Universals, Being, Intentionality, And Nothingness—and Deploys The Techniques Of Paraconsistent Logic In Order To Offer A Radically New Treatment Of Unity. Priest Brings Together Traditions Of Western And Asian Thought That Are Usually Kept Separate In Academic Philosophy: He Draws On Ideas From Plato, Heidegger, And Nagarjuna, Among Other Philosophers.