Ontology:Q10,000
Core characteristics
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- independent existence of multiple disconnected groups of people who typically have different reality models or ideologies
- free-floating groups
- open plurality
- plural factions or subpopulations
- "ours groups" (MDem v5.2 drafts)
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- multiplicity (parts of a unified whole which can be countably separated; Henri Bergson)
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-1-1 - a lot (vague order of magnitude)
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- consists of components: social graph - replicated at order of magnitude - two or more; social graph - taking the form of - discontinuous object
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- components and aliases need to be re-evaluated, but don't remove them.
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This is the non-fictional motif of something that appears to be one entity actually being multiple separate entities — generally in the context of populations. It may be referred to with any number of phrases: countability / countable, countable plurality / countably plural, separable multiplicity, and so on, although meta-Marxism simply tends toward the term "plurality". When all the individuals in a country combine into a single homogeneous population without issue, they are not in plurality. When all the individuals in a country combine into two or more distinct populations which do not neatly behave as a single entity as much as multiple interacting entities, those smaller entities are in plurality.
The prospect of plurality raises problems for a lot of theories of society, including Trotskyism, anarchism, and generic Liberal-republicanism. If Trotskyism treats all the populations of the world as one population to then propose to unify "the proletariat" it presumes is singular (or anarchism does nearly the same thing with "The Multitude"), but there are factors separating those populations that affect all individuals in each population, they might not stand together. Similarly, if center-Liberals assume that everyone desires to be part of the same population and give people the same human rights purely because there is a constitution and people can say buzzwords like "democracy" and "empathy", but in reality "Our Democracy" consists of two or three separate populations in plurality that fundamentally don't believe in the same things and that act as separate nations, passing any kind of progressive policies whatsoever with only half a population to work with may prove to be a problem.
Alias "multiplicity"
Existentialist philosopher Henri Bergson describes this concept with the term multiplicity, but that term extends further than the scope of this entry. The concept of plurality described in this entry is fundamentally connected to the notion of subunits of a greater whole being countable and separable at least at some point in time; particular subunits may take time to emerge out of a unity, but as long as they emerge eventually at some later date they would then be in plurality or in separable multiplicity. Bergson also extends his term over "qualitative" aspects of a whole which can never be properly separated, in particular the concept of time for any particular person or isolated object passing continuously but not in a way which seems to be properly divisible.[1] This entry does not include that concept of inseparable multiplicity.
This kind of conflation of separable and inseparable multiplicity can be relatively common across philosophy. Apart from the word multiplicity, you may see it happen with the word plural. The word pluralism is used with the connotation that different groups of people live in harmony specifically because they are multiple yet inseparably glued together, not necessarily taking time to think about the concept of whether populations may be physically separating and recombining on the ground. The word multiculturalism may be used with broader connotations, either talking about inclusion or about populational self-determination; the reference to multiple populations is not baked together with the concept they are always required and assumed to function like a single homogeneous population. The use of terms that do not distinguish between separable and inseparable multiplicity is not necessarily a bad thing, but these terms are not synonymous with this entry. This entry refers to the descriptive state of two population objects such as countries, religions, beehives, or flocks of birds currently existing as countably separate objects which have not neatly merged to become inseparable.
References
- ↑ A Thousand Multiplicities: Exploring Space and Time with Gilles Deleuze . Regn P. (30 August 2023). NIST Geographic. nistgeographic.org