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  • noun Plural form of multiplicity.

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  • In other words, a radical organization is an organization of individual entities, which are the constituents of the order or orders arising in multiplicities governed by radical organization, while each such constituent, considered in isolation, cannot itself be subject to this or any order, law, organization, comprehension, and so forth.

    Complexity and Order. 2001

  • In other words, a radical organization is an organization of individual entities, which are the constituents of the order or orders arising in multiplicities governed by radical organization, while each such constituent, considered in isolation, cannot itself be subject to this or any order, law, organization, comprehension, and so forth.

    Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001

  • Of course, "Stonehenge" is not really the monument it was at its building (whether by Merlin or under the influence of Aliens or as a burial ground), much less in its "original" usage -- rather, "Stonehenge" is a kind of shorthand, by which we mean all the things which intervened, the multiplicities of usages and all the "theories" about its origins that exist in the intervening time.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • Of course, "Stonehenge" is not really the monument it was at its building (whether by Merlin or under the influence of Aliens or as a burial ground), much less in its "original" usage -- rather, "Stonehenge" is a kind of shorthand, by which we mean all the things which intervened, the multiplicities of usages and all the "theories" about its origins that exist in the intervening time.

    Stonehenge: Decoded! ; or, What's so Secret about the Past? Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • If you, too, have had your rest-bits nibbled away, by multiplicities, take heart.

    Dr. Cara Barker: Why You Must Vacation When Your Wallet Is Empty 2009

  • At the same time, however, the fractured identity described as "neurosis" in the 1940s also anticipates the fragmentation, multiplicities, and identity politics of postmodernism.

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • As Badiou so nicely articulates it, ontology will be the science of multiplicity qua multiplicity without any identical terms or unities pre-existing these multiplicities.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • The aim will be to explain how we move from these inconsistent multiplicities to consistent multiplicities…

    Archive 2008-01-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • It's fun to observe the multiplicities and contradictions within a single person.

    "I share Ann's affection for bloggers who are trying to observe and understand what they are writing about..." Ann Althouse 2008

  • That is, under this model we will not have any ultimate unities or identities, but rather it will be multiplicities all the way down, where one multiplicity constitutes another multiplicity as a unity for itself…

    Archive 2008-01-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

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