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  • One thing which Leibniz admired in Plato was the pluralism of the theory of ideas; Plato, he says in the Letter to Hansch, teaches that objectum sapientiae esse substantias nempe simplices, quae a me Monades appellantur (“the objects of knowledge are the simplest substances, which I call Monads”).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNST MORITZ MANASSE 1968

  • - So far in this series, we've covered some of the methods you can implement for custom computation expressions (aka Monads) in F# such as bind and return, as well as exception and resource management.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2010

  • You're still confusing IO and Monads, which is sorta the root of all the problems above.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2009

  • "Monads" -- animistically conceived units of which the entire universe, organic or inorganic, was held to be constituted -- were (by the fiat of

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892

  • But, alas! many of them stood but little chance of being ever tried, for the very same reason which prevented the disciple of Leibnitz from obtaining his 'Monads'; their authors could not make their meaning intelligible to the delegated omniscience.

    The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Henry Rogers 1841

  • On Meridian's first floor, Heike Liss offers big drawings of what she calls "Monads,"

    SFGate: Top News Stories Kenneth Baker 2010

  • Everyone is happy, everyone is satisfied within the towering blocks of the Urban Monads -- monster monoliths of humanity towering hundreds of floors, and thousands of feet, above the surface of the planet.

    Robert Silverberg's "The World Inside": Overpopulation, Sex and Sensibility 2009

  • Further, in a famously eccentric and remarkable image, he declares, "Monads have no windows through which something can enter or leave" (Leibniz, Monadology 214).

    Club Monad 2008

  • These Monads, as we have transmuted beyond Sin or Virtue, are the principles of Affect, Agency, Volition, and Complicity. which are all complex significations embedded into Gazira's Hammer.

    She[s] got a hammer: Hammering the Void Bettina Tizzy 2009

  • These Monads, as we have transmuted beyond Sin or Virtue, are the principles of Affect, Agency, Volition, and Complicity. which are all complex significations embedded into Gazira's Hammer.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009

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