The phrase "a plurality of things" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to multiple items or concepts, emphasizing that there is more than one of something.
Example: "In the discussion, we considered a plurality of things, including economic factors, social influences, and environmental impacts."
Alternatives: "a variety of things" or "multiple items".
In keeping with the pluralism of meaningful predication (there is a plurality of things that we can meaningfully articulate judgments about), we cannot dogmatically presuppose that there is only one meaning of the 'being' addressed in our predicative activities.
It was a long while before he broke from the spell of Fichte's teachings and turned to philosophical realism, which asserts that underlying the world of appearances there is a plurality of things or "reals".
Firstly, it is argued that a plurality is always a plurality of things.
What Kant likely had in mind is nicely captured in a remark of Bennett's (1974, p. 83): to think of myself as a plurality of things is to think of my being conscious of this plurality, "and that pre-requires an undivided me".
Kant uses this difference to argue that since the quantity of matter consists in a plurality of real things external to each other that cannot fade away (as consciousness might), the only way to decrease its quantity is by division.
Consider a plurality of F things, A, B, and C. By One-over-Many, each of A, B, C is F by virtue of partaking of a form of F-ness (say, F1).
From the existence of a plurality of F things and the fact that, for any such plurality P, there is a form of F-ness by virtue of partaking of which each member of P is F, it follows that there is one form "over" the many members of P (in the sense of being that by virtue of partaking of which each member of P is F).
But where a successful Lakers team funnels glib satisfaction down the throat of an already flattery-fattened city, a lousy Lakers team for instance, the one currently bumping along near the bottom of the NBA's Western Conference despite a starting lineup featuring a plurality of sure-thing Hall of Famers does the opposite.
The metaphysical view amounts to the claim that the world consists of a plurality of independently existing things exhibiting qualities and standing in relations.
Even from our partial experience of the "world-whole", Wolff believes that we can safely conclude that the world is a plurality of co-existing things and each given body is (itself) a composite whole.
The result is a plurality of pluralisms.
