Many secrets lurk behind these texts. When reading, do not let your first impressions deceive you, and understand that the Parts are with the Whole and the Whole with its Parts. The Whole is an entity that is both the sum, ∑ , of the group, and the identity, (e, or in many cases, 0). Like Schroedinger's cat, to my understanding, it is always both, but when it is perceived, the perceiver understands it to be one or the other in that moment. When reading, let your mind digest part and whole, part and whole, until the pre-perception existence of the phenomena can become complete in the mind's eye.
Which comes first, the conception, or the naming? Clearly, the conception. So what's in a name?