Meaning of multiplism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The philosophical strategy that asserts the validity of multiple differing interpretations.
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2. The style created and promoted by Victor Victori, which depicts a subject in different positions and expressions in order to show change over time.
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Examples

“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."”

“Part I offers revealing examples of apparently incompatible interpretations and, in the spirit of multiplism, offers several strategies for rendering them admissible.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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."”

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