If one of the distinctive contributions of the American political tradition was a pluralistic conception of governance, its primal source was the pluralistic character of the founding generation itself.
To some readers it suggests that a more pluralistic conception of scientific revolutions than Kuhn's is needed.
Rather, we counter extremism and its ilk with better, more compassionate and more pluralistic concepts that are universal to all people - respect, integrity, and justice.
He explains the concept of Pluralistic ignorance, when members of a community go along with norms but privately lack conviction themselves.
An example of such a pluralistic explanatory framework is the concept of a gene's "status" according to which different extrinsic variables independently but concordantly contribute to sequence evolution [ 23].
In this kind of pluralistic world, traditional concepts of hell and damnation for everyone that is different than you seem downright, well, medieval.
In the long run, however, the deep strength in the concept of a tolerant, pluralistic society -- the ingenious idea that human intelligence could overcome prejudice and lead to a vibrant, vital culture -- emerged.
The aim, according to the paper, is "to discredit EU narratives, erode support for legitimate governments… and undermine the concept of free independent, pluralistic media".
Drawing on Nora Jacobson's (Jacobson, 2009) taxonomy of dignity and pluralistic approaches to social justice, the concept of 'social dignity' provides a lens for exploring the adequacy of home environments for disabled people.
Given the increasingly diverse and pluralistic nature of our country, the answer cannot be the same one presented by the founding fathers, whose limited concept of belonging cemented white masculinity as the default definition of citizenship.
