monism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: monism	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
monism n the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element Antonym(s): pluralism
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monism \Mon"ism\, n. [From Gr. [?] single.] 1. (Metaph.) That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; -- the opposite of dualism. Note: 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. 2. (Biol.) See {Monogenesis}, 1.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monogenesis \Mon`ogen"esis\, n. [Mono- + genesis.] 1. Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to {polygenesis}. Called also {monism}. --Dana. --Haeckel. 2. (Biol.) That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction. --Haeckel. 3. (Biol.) The direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; -- opposed to {metagenesis}. --E. van Beneden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monism \Mon"ism\, n. The doctrine that the universe is an organized unitary being or total self-inclusive structure. Monism means that the whole of reality, i.e., everything that is, constitutes one inseparable and indicisible entirety. Monism accordingly is a unitary conception of the world. It always bears in mind that our words are abstracts representing parts or features of the One and All, and not separate existences. Not only are matter and mind, soul and body, abstracts, but also such scientific terms as atoms and molecules, and also religious terms such as God and world. --Paul Carus.