In a wireless packet communication system having a plurality of nodes, each having a transmitter and a receiver, the receiver at each node is assigned a seed value and is provided with a channel punchout mask.
Says Pierce: "The diversity of Russell's work brings out a real plurality of opinions; each film club have their own reasons for celebrating Ken".
It was not necessary to reach the issue as to whether a mere plurality of licenses, each containing a price-fixing provision, violates the Sherman Act.
But if we see in the war of 1914-1918, as I do, the consequence of interactions between a plurality of powers, each of which was willing to resort to violence in support of its interests, then we might also infer we need to devise better ways of integrating new great powers into the international system.
Modal realism, in the uncompromising form defended by the American philosopher David Lewis, is the view that there exists a (very large) plurality of worlds, each of which is a spatiotemporally (and therefore causally) closed system, disjoint from all others and comprising its own distinctive collection of concrete particulars, replete with all their properties and relations to each other.
While no empirical theory can be justified unless it is supported by evidence, the underdetermination of theories by evidence permits the development of a plurality of theories, each of which may claim its own successes.
According to Kantian contractualism, "society, being composed of a plurality of persons, each with his own aims, interests, and conceptions of the good, is best arranged when it is governed by principles that do not themselves presuppose any particular conception of the good…" (Sandel, 1982: 1).
So scientific progress comes through "theoretical pluralism", allowing a plurality of incompatible theories, each of which will contribute by competition to maintaining and enhancing the testability, and thus the empirical content, of the others.
Context permitting, each possible world can therefore represent a plurality of maximal possibilities each of which differ haecceitistically from one another.
