Definition:
Any of various theories holding that there is only one basic substance or principle as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of a single element.
Sample Sentences:
Transformations have taken place in the polity, which is reflected in the shift from monism to pluralism.
Using this argument it is possible to take a materialist stance whilst rejecting the implication of materialist monism that our minds are purely reactive.
A methodological monism of empirical science assumes that everything is essentially matter.
Usage:
New Advent - Catholic Encyclopedia
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10483a.htm
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/monism/
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Monisms is a philosophical term that contrasts with pluralisms and nihilisms. Wherever pluralistic philosophy distinguishes a multiplicity of things, Monism denies that the manifoldness is real, and holds that the apparently many are phases, or phenomena, of a one. Wherever dualistic philosophy distinguishes between body and soul, matter and spirit, object and subject, matter and force, the system which denies such a distinction, reduces one term of the antithesis to the other, or merges both in a higher unity, is called Monism. They attribute oneness to (the target), and how they count (the unit). Illustrations show that monism must be relativized to both a target and a unit.
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