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pluralist

pluralist

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A thinker who believes the world is made of many basic kinds of things
  • noun
  • /ˈplʊrəlɪst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : pluralista
  • The pluralist approach encourages dialogue between different cultures to promote understanding.
  • pluralist interpretation
  • pluralist view
  • pluralist democracy

Examples

  • And then there's what Peter Kohner calls the radical pluralist view, which is what my view basically is.

  • In some such way as this, I suggest, we can make best sense of Byrne's pluralist hypothesis that all the world's major religions refer to the same transcendent reality.

    Academic text (2007)
  • With respect to scientific matters, what is valuable in pluralist work is readily subsumable within public choice.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Pluralist theory views the flourishing of interest groups as a natural product of liberal democratic societies.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Pluralist arguments offer useful explanations for economic policy choices in Argentina and Uruguay.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Pluralist views have some credibility; they are closer to public choice than the Marxist alternative, but the pluralist vision lacks a formal statement equivalent to even the most rudimentary of public choice models.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Their concerns are primarily economic, and the resolution of their differences, although not without intense controversy, fits easily within the pluralist paradigm that has bounded other economic debates.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Nowadays, in order to accommodate our increasing ethnic diversity, we are accustomed to think of America in terms of a generic "democratic capitalism" or pluralist, liberal democracy rather than as an Anglo-American form of society.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The proposal is animated by the conviction that the process of rebuilding Iraq on democratic foundations must be grounded, inter alia, in the pluralist, rational, and scientific traditions of Islamic civilization.

    Academic text (2004)
  • As a pluralist, she believes that diverse perspectives can enrich philosophical discussions.

Surface Forms

pluralist singular
pluralists plural

Morphology

pluralist = pluralism (transparent) = plural + ist

Clear derivation from the idea 'plural' → 'pluralism' and the agentive suffix '-ist' meaning a proponent or adherent.

Etymology

Pluralist comes from plural meaning 'more than one' and the ending -ist meaning 'a person who believes something'. In philosophy a pluralist is someone who thinks the world has 'many' basic kinds, not just one, so the word shows a belief in several fundamental principles.