Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- As a monad or unit; by oneness.
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- adverb In a
monadic manner; as amonad or by means of monads.
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Examples
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For example, a materialist might suggest a type-identity of Bertie's phenomenal greenness with something neurophysiological, but it is not plausible to think that a smoothly and monadically green patch in one's visual field just is a neural state or event in one's brain.
Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006
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Brian Beckman demonstrates three ways of labeling a binary tree with unique integer node numbers: (1) by hand, (2) non-monadically, but functionally, by threading an updating counter state variable through function arguments, and (3) monadically, by using a partially generalized state-monad implementation to handle the threading via composition.
Channel 9 2008
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