If there were a plurality of event causes and fact causes and the like, some metaphysical harmony would be needed amongst them, for surely they could not conflict.
For instance, the plurality of explanatory causes to be chosen from or integrated in biology or physics has been defended as lesson in pluralism (Sober 1999).
This means that all things, including mental events, arise co-dependently from a plurality of other causes and conditions.
It should be stressed that from a constructive point of view this plurality of options (and thus systems), rather than causing uneasiness, is a highly desirable situation, as it constitutes a form of "axiomatic freedom".
A YouGov poll for The Economist found that a plurality of respondents favours stopping Obamacare even if this causes a temporary shutdown: 49% favoured repealing the law, compared with 36% who favoured expanding or preserving it.
o1 might enter into such an explanation in a variety of ways: by causing o2 to cause e, by being caused by o2 to cause e, by jointly causing e together with o2, or where o2 is a plurality of objects by being one of them.[43] Can J1 be resisted?
A plurality of Democrats, Republicans, and independents all say that her efforts have caused them to view her less favorably.
A plurality of wireless sensor networks which are not connected with each other [2] causes the upper layer network to be unable to transmit the damaged network signals correctly.
A plurality of models should be foreseen, accepting, in this case, their practical and theoretical implications.
Identifying the cause of stillbirth can be challenging due to the plurality of classification systems, many of which result in a high proportion of cases remaining unexplained [ 4].
