monism

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We have observed how Chinese dualism became a monism, and how while the monism was established the dualism was retained.

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  1. noun Philosophy The view in metaphysics that reality is a unified whole and that all existing things can be ascribed to or described by a single concept or system.
  2. noun Philosophy The doctrine that mind and matter are formed from, or reducible to, the same ultimate substance or principle of being.

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  • But the partial truths, in a strict monism, are not merely not quite true: they do not subsist at all. —  My Philosophical Development
  • Ironically, the idea that the liberal leanings of American higher education have neglected key curriculum and led to intellectual monism was famously and forcibly espoused by former Prof. Allan Bloom in his 1987 bestselling book, The Closing of the American Mind. —  Stories from The Sun
  • Other peoples 'religions are that many Gods exist (polytheism), or all is God (monism, or pantheism), or that God is Yahweh, or that God is Allah, etc. (monotheism). —  Evolution News & Views
  • The underlying principle of monism is that the universe is a unity in which no distinction exists between the material and the spiritual. —  Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
  • The doctrine of evolution is brought into the service of monism, and the attempt is made to prove that in the very process of biological development human thought, moral sentiment, and social instincts have been evolved. —  Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
 

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  1. from Greek μόνος, single, + -ism.
 

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