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The. The Bible. The Rock. The Game. The Sky. The Earth. The connotes universalism; The Law, for example. The Castle. The Lord. The Abyss. So is The effectively an expression of form, immutable and unquestioned? Maybe. The, however, may express an odd uniqueness. The One is a popular example of this. The One, as a vaunted romantic other, entails a completion of a predestined primordial unity, through finding the One. The One, as idol, exemplar, and hero, represents something else. I don't quite know what it is. The One is an imperfect vessel that provides a glimpse into divine form. By implying that God himself was beholden to divine forms - that the form is the house of all divine Power, Bayle prefigures the death of a god, who is left merely an administrative agent of higher forms. So what is The? Is it a Platonic aspiration for definitive forms. So wait, is Hobbes doing this, while understanding the irony inherent in the terms "The State" or "The Leviathan" or "The Sovereign"? These terms are true by definition, derived from geometical forms. What is then the epistemological relation between name and form?