Plurality Explained
Plurality may refer to:
Law and politics
- Plurality decision, 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), when a candidate or proposition polls more votes than any other but does not receive more than half of all votes cast
- Plurality voting, a system in which each voter votes for one candidate and the candidate with a plurality is elected
Psychology and psychiatry
- Multiplicity (psychology), also known as plurality, a psychological condition where multiple personalities form within an individual
Philosophy and religion
- Plurality (church governance), a type of Christian church polity in which decisions are made by a committee
- Plurality of benefices, the holding of two different benefices simultaneously
- Plurality of gods, an understanding of God in Mormonism
- Plurality, one of the "twelve pure concepts of the understanding" proposed by Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason
- Ontological pluralism
Other uses
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