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Logic can only compel models.
You seem to be saying "Let x denote the universe. ~x is then a valid term. So ~x must denote something that isn't x, thus there are two things!" There are surface problems with this such as that x may not be of type boolean, and that you're just assuming every term denotes something. But the important problem is simpler: we can use logic to deduce things about our models, but logic doesn't touch reality itself (apart from the part of reality that is us).
What do you mean by "reality is dynamic"? Have you read Timeless Physics?
So I infer from the above that you have no logical arguments to support that reality is "one thing". I would think only an agnostic position on the nature of reality would be consistent with the nihilist stance you are representing.