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"ref": "2007, Matthias Koenig with Paul F. A. Guchteneire, Unesco, Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies, page 251",
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"ref": "2006, Connie Aarsbergen-Ligtvoet, Isaiah Berlin: A Value Pluralist and Humanist View of Human Nature and the Meaning of Live",
"text": "Due to pluralism and conflicts within the good itself, such perfection, for Berlin, is not possible. A compromise does not brin us closer to a higher telos in history.",
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"ref": "2016, Stuart Firestein, Failure: Why Science is So Successful, page 217",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "quality or state of being plural",
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"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"tags": [
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"word": "плурализъм"
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"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"word": "多元主義"
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"roman": "duōyuánzhǔyì",
"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "pluralisme"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṗluralizmi",
"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"word": "პლურალიზმი"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
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"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"word": "बहुलवाद"
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{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "anekvād",
"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"word": "अनेकवाद"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "iolrachas"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"tags": [
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"word": "pluralismo"
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{
"alt": "たげんしゅぎ",
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"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"word": "多元主義"
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{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
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"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
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"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "yl-raghys"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pluralismo"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
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"neuter"
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{
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"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
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"masculine"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"tags": [
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"word": "pluralizam"
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"sense": "social system with multiple cultural identities",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pluralismo"
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{
"code": "uk",
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"word": "плюралі́зм"
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"sense": "philosophy",
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"code": "hi",
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