ABSTRACT
To believe in the one or in the many, that is the classification with the maximum number of consequences. A certain abstract monism, a certain emotional response to the character of oneness, as if it were a feature of the world not co-ordinate with its manyness. The oneness and the manyness of it thus obtain in respects which can be separately named. It is neither a universe pure and simple nor a multiverse pure and simple. The oneness of things, superior to their manyness, people think must also be more deeply true, must be the more real aspect of the world. The real universe must form an unconditional unit of being, something consolidated, with its parts co-implicated through. Pragmatism, pending the final empirical ascertainment of just what the balance of union and disunion among things may be, must obviously range upon the pluralistic side.
