ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 develops the notion of errant pluralism by contrasting it with reductionist and parallelist approaches. Reductionist approaches seek to efface the empirical plurality of procedures by reducing it to a single procedure underlying or subsuming all others. In turn, parallelism accepts this plurality as irreducible yet seeks to order this plural field by assigning each procedure its own place in the world, so that they are able to unfold in parallel with little contact or communication. Instead, we affirm an errant conception of pluralism that rejects the possibility of a parallel or any other ordering of the procedures, which makes their contact inevitable and poses the problem of their possible conflict. This chapter concludes with the elaboration of the idea of the incommensurability of procedures, arguing that the lack of any common measure does not preclude the possibility of navigation and passages between them.
