Plurality

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
  • Dissociative identity disorder, dissociative disorder associated with plurality
  • Other specified dissociative disorder, psychiatric diagnosis associated with plurality

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

• Plurality (company), an Israeli semiconductor company

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Plurality
• Multiplicity (disambiguation)
• Plurality of worlds (disambiguation)
• Pluralism (disambiguation)
• Plural

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