“The resulting view is “structuralist” or “holistic” in two respects. First, one can only state something fundamental by characterizing the world as a whole. And second, the derivative individualistic facts then flow from that fundamental fact only as a group, not one-by-one. So there is no making sense of either the fundamental or the derivative without making sense of everything at once. As a result, this is what might be called a “many-from-one” metaphysics, on which many elements (the individualistic facts) flow together from one source (the World Fact). I am not aware of other many-from-one views in recent metaphysics, but Spinoza arguably endorsed one when he argued that the finite modes flow together, but not individually, from the essence of God.28 If I am right, we have good reason to revisit many-from-one views today.”