Byron Simmons (USI)

According to a historically prominent version of ontological pluralism, there are two fundamental ways of being that perfectly partition reality: entities located in space or time enjoy concrete existence, while everything else enjoys abstract subsistence. This view, which harkens back to Plato, reached the height of its influence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries before all but disappearing by the middle of the 20th century. It has more recently become the poster child of the pluralistic revival initiated by Kris McDaniel and Jason Turner. Let’s call it two-ways-of-being pluralism.

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