multiplism

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Etymology edit

multiple +‎ -ism

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multiplism (uncountable)

(philosophy) The philosophical strategy that asserts the validity of multiple differing interpretations.
- 2007, Jennifer C. Greene, Mixed Methods in Social Inquiry, →ISBN, page 23:
  Cook's multiplism thus privileges convergent truths through triangulation even as it provides spaces for divergence and difference, regarding such occurrences as troublesome "empirical puzzles."
- 2010, Michael Krausz, Is There a Single Right Interpretation?, →ISBN, page 5:
  Part I offers revealing examples of apparently incompatible interpretations and, in the spirit of multiplism, offers several strategies for rendering them admissible.
- 2013, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge, →ISBN:
  To put it briefly, multiplism thinks reality is multiply realizable. For example, the highest good is conceptualized in radically different ways in different schemas of life. Multiplism holds that it is not incoherent to maintain both that (i) these different ways are irreducible to a higher-order universal; and (ii) the validity of one does not imply the invalidity of others.
(art) The style created and promoted by Victor Victori, which depicts a subject in different positions and expressions in order to show change over time.
- 2015 February 18, Marlon Wallace, “DVD Review - Victori: The Truth Just Can't Be One Thing”, in WBOC TV 16:
  He's now mostly doing originals and his own style of art called multiplism. Multiplism is when Victori does multiple, connected faces in one piece to show a person or character's various emotions.
- 2015 February 28, “Lives and times”, in Boston Globe:
  Guided by his business school-educated son, he wants to take on the New York Art scene with his aesthetic movement “multiplism,” a cubist spin-off featuring works such as the Mona Lisa with a dozen different expressions.
- 2015 March 25, “Documentary tells story of Rutherford resident artist and the family that backs him”, in NorthJersey.com:
  It tells the story of Victor's career as a famous lucrative portrait artist who migrated from Korea to America in 1972, working mainly out of malls across America to his retirement in present day spent painting and perfecting his post-modern art form "Multiplism."

Antonyms edit

(antonym(s) of “philosophy”): singularism