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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 857 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLURALISM (See also:Lat. plus, plures, many, several)  , a See also:term used generally in the sense of See also:plurality (see below), and in See also:philosophy for any theory which postulates more than one absolutely distinct being or principle of being, opposed to See also:monism . Pluralistic systems are based on the difficulty of reconciling with the monistic principle the principles of variety and freewill . The See also:chief difficulty which besets any such view is that if the elements are absolutely See also:independent, the cosmos disappears and we are See also:left with See also:chaos: if, on the other See also:hand, there is interrelation (as in See also:Lotze's See also:system), the elements are not ultimate 'in any intelligible sense .

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