Pluralism's used, often in different ways, across a wide range of topics to denote a diversity of views, and stands in opposition to one single approach or method of interpretation: Scientific pluralism, the view that some phenomena observed in science require multiple explanations to account for their nature, and hence the denial that there's one unified scientific method Methodological pluralism, the view that some phenomena observed in science and social science require multiple methods to… (More on Pluralism)