To explain how the plurality of the sub-lunar world can proceed from this absolutely one God, Ibn Daud presents the theory of "intermediaries", as he found it in the works of the Muslim philosophers.
It may also be that even though the book's model explained the plurality, or even the majority, of variance in political behavior, it left out crucial motivating factors.
Cancer is a multifactorial disease, i.e., the detection of one mutation in one gene cannot explain the phenotypic plurality of carcino- and pathogenesis by a one-to-one relationship between genotype and phenotype.
One challenge facing this version of pluralism is to explain why all of the different cat-concepts count as cat-concepts that is, to explain what unifies the plurality of cat-concepts that
Much of the debate between pluralists and monists has focussed on the issue of whether the complexity of moral choice implies that values really are plural a pattern emerges in which the monist claims to be able to explain the appearance of plurality away, and the pluralist insists that the appearance reflects a pluralist reality.
His Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (1686; Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds) explains the Copernican universe in simple terms.
Saucedo (manuscript) defends a plural notion of fundamentality, and argues that the plurality of all things is a fundamental plurality, partly to accommodate both gunk and junk.
Fontenelle's 17th-century book "Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds" imagines a series of romantic meetings between a lady and gentleman, during which he explains the new science of Copernicus and Descartes.
Nevertheless, moderate Democrats are still the plurality of the party.
The plurality of modern political ideologies implies a plurality of different conceptions of human nature – which implies, in turn, that the conservative understanding of human nature is contested.
