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pluralistic, a.|plʊərəˈlɪstɪk|
[f. prec. + -ic: see -istic.]
Of or belonging to a pluralist or to pluralism, in any sense; spec. in Philos. recognizing more than one ultimate principle in ontology: opposed to monistic; in Pol. and Sociol. (see pluralism 3); pluralistic ignorance (see quot. 1970).
1854Edin. Rev. XCIX. 360 Even the ‘pluralistic’ marriage service has been published [by the Mormons]. The following is an extract from this novel rubric. 1877Winchell Sci. & Rel. ii. (1881) 40 The later Eleatics were pluralistic—holding to the distinction of matter and spirit. 1884Lotze's Metaph. l. 443 What I looked for in vain in other statements of the pluralistic hypothesis. 1891F. C. S. Schiller Riddles of Sphinx 403 The pluralistic answer given to the ultimate question of ontology. 1909W. James (title) Pluralistic universe. 1919H. J. Laski in Philos. Rev. XXVIII. 562 (title) The pluralistic state. 1920Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. XXV. 388 Pluralistic behavior, in distinction from individual behavior, has its own conditions, forms, and laws. 1933Sociol. & Social Research XVIII. 107 The pluralistic conception of society carries with it the principle of functionalism. 1950T. M. Newcomb Social Psychol. xvi. 608 We have a condition for which F. H. Allport..suggested the term pluralistic ignorance. Everyone assumes that everyone except himself accepts the norms uncritically. 1963F. Copleston Hist. Philos. VII. ii. xii. 252 A pluralistic metaphysics which calls to mind the atoms of Democritus and the monads of Liebnitz. 1964T. B. Bottomore Elites & Society vi. 119 Aron, when he urges the importance of the diffusion of power in the pluralistic democracies does not invoke only the principal elites. 1970G. A. & A. G. Theodorson Mod. Dict. Sociol. 301 Pluralistic ignorance, a situation in which individual members of a group believe incorrectly that they are each alone..in believing or not believing in particular values. 1971[see plural society]. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Feb. 195/2 We are now living in a morally pluralistic society;..attempts by one group to impose its morality on another are futile. 1975N.Y. Times 10 Sept. 20/7 Mr. Kissinger added that the United States was ‘working in closest harmony with our European allies’ on the problem of encouraging ‘the emergence of a pluralistic system’ in Portugal. 1976P. Donovan Relig. Lang. viii. 95 Apologists for the Baha'i World Faith appeal to the reasonableness of a syncretistic faith in today's pluralistic world. 1977M. Walker National Front i. 15 The pluralistic kind of society has agreed to permit its citizens to differ about the society's objectives.
Hence pluraˈlistically adv.
1880Athenæum 25 Dec. 851/3 [Julius Bahnsen's] philosophy..defines the ‘Ding an sich’ of Schopenhauer, the Will, pluralistically, and not, as Hartmann does, monistically. |