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Webster 1913 Edition
Monism
Mon′ism
(mŏn′ĭz’m or mō′nĭz’m)
, Noun.
[From Gr.
μόνοσ
single.] 1.
(Metaph.)
That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; – the opposite of
dualism
. ☞ The doctrine has been held in three generic forms: matter and its phenomena have been explained as a modification of mind, involving an idealistic monism; or mind has been explained by and resolved into matter, giving a materialistic monism; or, thirdly, matter, mind, and their phenomena have been held to be manifestations or modifications of some one substance, like the substance of Spinoza, or a supposed unknown something of some evolutionists, which is capable of an objective and subjective aspect.