The statement of the one who said: “Multipleness is only found from the first effect, and if it is one, three considerations are found in it, namely, its cause, its essence, and its possibility.” So we say to them that this requires you in the first cause. I mean that there are considerations in it, and it is one. Why do you prevent that only one issue from it? As for if you commit to the issue of multiplicity from the cause. The first, or one issuance of the first effect, and you do not say either of the two things .