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So it's our own universe/pluriverse, not a single planet, not even a single star system nor galaxy.
Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor" 2009
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Thus, a Whiteheadian can also speak of a “pluriverse” if they so wish.
Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum William Harryman 2009
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There are responses (for example, that on this account there would have to be a universe generator which was itself fine-tuned (Collins 1999), or that even if it is likely that some universe be fine-tuned, nevertheless the likelihood that this universe be fine-tuned is unaffected by the pluriverse suggestion (White 2003)) and responses to the responses, and so on; not surprisingly, there is no consensus as to whether these fine-tuning arguments are successful.
Religion and Science Plantinga, Alvin 2007
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Sider constructs this sentence, that simultaneously describes all the possible worlds and their relationships, using a range of constraints including the constraint that de dicto necessity claims that are in fact true are true of all the worlds of the described pluriverse.
Modal Fictionalism Nolan, Daniel 2007
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Theodore Sider defends an “ersatz pluriverse” view in Sider 2002, according to which possible worlds talk should be understood as talk about what is true according to what is true according to a pluriverse sentence that Sider specifies.
Modal Fictionalism Nolan, Daniel 2007
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Armstrong employed the two stage fiction, on the other hand, because he held that it is true at each world that it is the only world, and if the fiction were of a Lewisian pluriverse each world would (according to the fiction) be such that it was one of many worlds.
Modal Fictionalism Nolan, Daniel 2007
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Unlike Aristotle that held the social was only composed of citizens, and later liberal and neo-liberal thought that sees the social as composed of humans or subjects, Latour's social is a pluriverse composed of everything from persons to cathode tubes to genetically engineered agricultural seeds to various tools to weather events to roads to technologies to remote gamma ray bursts that might happen to hit the planet and so on and so on.
Larval Subjects . 2010
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James switched occupations the way other people change socks, conducted experiments on himself, disliked the rules of spelling and wanted the universe renamed ''pluriverse.''
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By contrast, we specialize in shaping the pluriverse—potential tomorrows, sculpted today.
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Agarwal argued that users need to embrace a hub model for navigating the “pluriverse,” or a web of fractured platforms.
Your guide to the guides for fixing the internet Ryan Broderick 2023
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This is the pluriverse, a dynamic tapestry of interacting perspectives that Fuchs describes as “a living community of nows”.
Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together Jo Marchant 2026
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Instead of this monolithic block, the pluriverse is like a jazz improvisation, or wild forest, or jubilant crowd: an unruly, ever-evolving joint project with no master plan and the freedom to forge its own future.
Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together Jo Marchant 2026
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Somewhere in between those extremes sit the agents who take part in creating the pluriverse.
Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together Jo Marchant 2026
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This pluriverse is a very different kind of external reality as it is made up of other perspectives that we can only ever “bump into”, says Fuchs. We can influence each other, or be surprised or thwarted by events, but we can never truly understand someone else’s perspective, force them to see things in a particular way or know for sure what they will do next.
Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together Jo Marchant 2026
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Rather than consisting of pre-existing, standalone things, this pluriverse is made up of patterns of experiences, continually brought into being through choices and actions.
Forget the multiverse. In the pluriverse, we create reality together Jo Marchant 2026
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