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pluralism

pluralism

1 8.0
The view that many different basic parts make up reality
  • noun
  • /ˈplʊrəlɪzəm/
  • Formal
translation icon : pluralismo
  • Moral pluralism recognizes that individuals can hold different ethical beliefs that are equally valid.
  • value pluralism
  • Liberal pluralism
  • conceptual pluralism

Yeah, we really do see the distinction here in frameworks between pluralism and monism.

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Examples

  • But to get at what he means, first we have to introduce this notion of pluralism, more particularly moral pluralism.

  • Gray cannot consistently argue that value pluralism can do without a moral minimum.

    Academic text (1999)
  • We should accept a conceptual pluralism in these matters.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Liberal pluralism is therefore committed to defending the value of individual liberty on two levels.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Theoretical pluralism is assumed to be an essential feature of all knowledge that claims to be objective.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Three major views of the state "compete" in modern social science: Marxism, pluralism, and public choice.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Wallace used the case of religious pluralism in America to illustrate his point.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The idea of rights is thus consequent to the fact of pluralism and the necessity of a social union.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Previously, pluralism in American society focused on policy differences that rested on shared democratic values.

    Academic text (2002)
  • A value pluralism that is informed or constrained by the value of liberty can.

    Academic text (1999)

Antonyms

monism
  • Specialized
1 9.9

The belief that all things are made of one basic thing

How Syncretic

fusion
33 4.1
syncretism
1 9.9
eclecticism
1 8.4
pluralism
  • Formal
1 8.0
exclusivism
  • Specialized
1 9.7

Surface Forms

pluralism singular
pluralisms plural

Morphology

pluralism = plural (semi-transparent) = plural + ism

The morphological formation 'plural' + '-ism' is clear, but the precise philosophical doctrine meaning is specialized and requires domain knowledge.

Etymology

Pluralism comes from plural ('more than one') and -ism ('a belief or system'). So in philosophy pluralism is the idea that reality is made of many different things rather than just one.