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36: 539:, the 'Logic of Paradox'—it is an invalid argument. However, logical monists may respond that a plurality of logical theories does not mean that no single one of the theories is the correct one. After all, there are and have been a multitude of theories in physics, but that hasn't been taken to mean that all of them are correct. 399:
It is common to refer to a film, novel or otherwise fictitious or virtual narrative as not being 'real'. Thus, the characters in the film or novel are not real, where the 'real world' is the everyday world in which we live. However, some authors may argue that fiction informs our concept of reality,
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or even that the 'correct' logic depends on the relevant logical questions under consideration (a sort of logical instrumentalism). Pluralism about logical consequence says that because different logical systems have different logical consequence relations, there is therefore more than one correct
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The topic of ontological pluralism discusses different ways, kinds, or modes of being. Recent attention in ontological pluralism is due to the work of Kris McDaniel, who defends ontological pluralism in a number of papers. The name for the doctrine is due to Jason Turner, who, following McDaniel,
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Wittgenstein suggests that it is not possible to identify a single concept underlying all versions of 'number', but that there are many interconnected meanings that transition one to another; vocabulary need not be restricted to technical meanings to be useful, and indeed technical meanings are
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is a limited form, a pluralism of exactly two models, structures, elements, or concepts. A distinction is made between the metaphysical identification of realms of reality and the more restricted sub-fields of ontological pluralism (that examines what exists in each of these realms) and
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In logic there are no morals. Everyone is at liberty to build his own logic, i.e. his own language, as he wishes. All that is required of him is that, if he wishes to discuss it, he must state his methods clearly, and give syntactical rules instead of philosophical
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argues that there is no overarching, single, fundamental ontology, but only a patchwork of overlapping interconnected ontologies ineluctably leading from one to another. For example, Wittgenstein discusses 'number' as technical vocabulary and in more general usage:
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Metaphysical pluralism in philosophy is the multiplicity of metaphysical models of the structure and content of reality, both as it appears and as logic dictates that it might be, as is exhibited by the four related models in Plato's
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Pluralists of the instrumentalist sort hold if a logic can be correct at all, it based on its ability to answer the logical questions under consideration. If one wants to understand vague propositions, one may need a
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give the concept 'number' rigid limits in this way, that is, use the word 'number' for a rigidly limited concept, but I can also use it so that the extension of the concept is
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In epistemology, pluralism is the position that there is not one consistent means of approaching truths about the world, but rather many. Often this is associated with
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is the comparison of the modes of existence of things like 'humans' and 'cars' with things like 'numbers' and some other concepts as they are used in science.
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to express the contrary view that at least some natural phenomena cannot be fully explained by a single theory or fully investigated using a single approach.
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Epistemological pluralism is a term used in philosophy and in other fields of study to refer to different ways of knowing things, different epistemological
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are used by Anaxagoras to explain the multiplicity in reality and becoming. This pluralist theory of being influenced later thinkers such as
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it may refer to the acceptance of co-existing scientific paradigms which though accurately describing their relevant domains are nonetheless
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Hector-Neri Castañeda (April 1979). "Fiction and reality: Their fundamental connections: An essay on the ontology of total experience".
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was another Classical Greek philosopher with links to pluralism. His metaphysical system is centered around mechanically necessitated
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suggests that "In contemporary guise, it is the doctrine that a logically perspicuous description of reality will use multiple
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Matti Eklund (2009). "Chapter 4: Carnap and ontological pluralism". In David J Chalmers; David Manley; Ryan Wasserman (eds.).
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Eklund has argued that Wittgenstein's conception includes as a special case the technically constructed, largely autonomous,
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and Carnapian ontological pluralism. He places Carnap's ontological pluralism in the context of other philosophers, such as
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wrote that they were fire, air, water and earth, although he used the word "root" rather than "element" (στοιχεῖον;
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can be defined a number of ways: the position that there is more than one correct account of
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Scientific pluralism; volume XIX in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
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which governs, combines and diffuses the various "roots" of reality (known as
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Belief that reality ultimately includes many different kinds of things.
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closed by a frontier. ...Can you give the boundary? No. You can
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for attaining a full description of a particular field. In the
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Jason Turner (April 2012). "Logic and ontological pluralism".
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Stephen H Kellert; Helen E Longino; C Kenneth Waters (2006).
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Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology
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Beall, JC; Restall, Greg (2000). "Logical Pluralism".
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Joshua Spencer (12 November 2012). "Ways of being".
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which cannot be thought of as ranging over a single
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Index

Ontological pluralism
splitting
disambiguation page
talk page
philosophy
worldview
monism
dualism
metaphysics
ontology
epistemology
logic
substances
reality
ontological pluralism
pragmatism
contextual
cultural relativism
philosophy of science
incommensurable
classical logic
paraconsistent logic
paradoxes
Monism
Mind–body dualism
contrast
phenomenalism
physicalism
dualism
epistemological pluralism

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