3. The first strong pluralist
stance was taken by the early
proponents of atomism :
>Leucippus
>Democritus
>Epicurus
4. • the Earth is unique
and that there can
be no other
systems of worlds
-Plato
- Aristotle
5. Pluralism in epistemology is
the position that there is not
one consistent set of truths
about the world, but rather
many. Often this is
associated with pragmatism,
cultural relativism, and
conceptual relativism.
6. Bruno, Kepler, Campanella,
Wilkins, Borel, Cyrano de
Bergerac, Huygens,
Fontanelle,
-used the heliocentric
world view as a logical basis
for extra terrestrial
speculation
7. . By the second half of the
19th century, science began
to play a far more decisive
role in the pluralism
debate, leading to a new
climate of skeptical and
rigorous inquiry.
