Plurality

Plurality can refer to:

  • Plural, in linguistics
  • Plurality opinion, in a decision by a multi-member court, an opinion held by more judges than any other but not by an overall majority
  • Plurality (voting), the most votes for any choice in an election, but not necessarily a majority
  • Plurality voting system, also called "first past the post"
  • Plurality-at-large voting, commonly referred to as block voting or bloc voting
  • Plurality (company), Israeli startup
  • Plurality (church governance), a type of Christian church polity
  • Plurality, ancient Greek pluralist philosophers in ontological pluralism
  • Plurality, one of the "twelve pure concepts of the understanding" proposed by Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason
  • Plurality, the holding of more than one benefice

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Famous quotes containing the word plurality:

    “Treating ‘water’ as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “A plurality should not be asserted without necessity.”
    —William Of Ockham (1300–1348)

    “Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst of them in reckless defiance; the plurality in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)