Editing World (section)

=== Monism and pluralism ===
[[Monism]] is a thesis about oneness: that only one thing exists in a certain sense. The denial of monism is [[Pluralism (philosophy)|pluralism]], the thesis that, in a certain sense, more than one thing exists.<ref name="Schaffer"/> There are many forms of monism and pluralism, but in relation to the world as a whole, two are of special interest: existence monism/pluralism and priority monism/pluralism. Existence monism states that the world is the only concrete object there is.<ref name="Schaffer"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schaffer |first1=Jonathan |title=From Nihilism to Monism |journal=Australasian Journal of Philosophy |date=2007 |volume=85 |issue=2 |pages=175–191 |doi=10.1080/00048400701343150 |s2cid=7788506 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/SCHFNT |issn = 0004-8402}}</ref><ref name="Sider">{{cite journal |last1=Sider |first1=Theodore |title=Against Monism |journal=Analysis |date=2007 |volume=67 |issue=1 |pages=1–7 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8284.2007.00641.x |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/SIDAM}}</ref> This means that all the concrete "objects" we encounter in our daily lives, including apples, cars and ourselves, are not truly objects in a strict sense. Instead, they are just dependent aspects of the world-object.<ref name="Schaffer"/> Such a world-object is simple in the sense that it does not have any genuine parts. For this reason, it has also been referred to as "blobject" since it lacks an internal structure like a blob.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Horgan |first1=Terry |last2=Potr |first2=Matja |title=Blobjectivism and Indirect Correspondence |journal=Facta Philosophica |date=2000 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=249–270 |doi=10.5840/factaphil20002214 |s2cid=15340589 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/HORBAI}}</ref> Priority monism allows that there are other concrete objects besides the world.<ref name="Schaffer"/> But it holds that these objects do not have the most fundamental form of existence, that they somehow depend on the existence of the world.<ref name="Sider"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Steinberg |first1=Alex |title=Priority Monism and Part/Whole Dependence |journal=Philosophical Studies |date=2015 |volume=172 |issue=8 |pages=2025–2031 |doi=10.1007/s11098-014-0395-8 |s2cid=170436138 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/STEPMA-2}}</ref> The corresponding forms of pluralism state that the world is complex in the sense that it is made up of concrete, independent objects.<ref name="Schaffer"/>