monads

In order to explain how, after an indefinite lapse of ages, so many of the lowest grades of animal or plant still abounded, he imagined that the germs or rudiments of living things, which he called monads, were continually coming into the world and that there were different kinds of these monads for each primary division of the animal and vegetable kingdoms.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

This was the assumption of the great German philosopher, Leibnitz, who carried the panspermic theory so far as to accept the more fanciful one of "monads" -- those invisible, ideal, and purely speculative units of Plato, which go to make up the entire universe, extending even to the ultimate elements, or elements of elements.

Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

Anyhow, Leibniz holds to the view that all matter is composed of itty-bitty things called monads, and each monad is distinct.

Excerpt from Codex Infinitum Kane X. Faucher 2010

I recalled the monads of Leibniz, the "dividing nature at its joints" discourse of Plato, and other attempts to parse complexity.

smalltalk: philosophy, metaphor, semantics, syntax Bill Kerr 2007

I recalled the monads of Leibniz, the "dividing nature at its joints" discourse of Plato, and other attempts to parse complexity.

Archive 2007-09-01 Bill Kerr 2007

The indestructibility of the monads is the assurance of an immortality in which the greatest harmony and justice will continue to be achieved.

THEODICY LEROY E. LOEMKER 1968

In his pre-critical period, Kant admitted physical monads, that is, simple and indivisible substances.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

The former has reference to the group of organisms to which I have for so many years directed your attention, viz., the "monads," which throughout I have called

Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various

Ehrenberg's theory that the _Volcox globator_ was an animal, and proved that his "monads" with stomachs and eyes were merely phases of the formation of a vegetable cell, and were, when they reached their mature state, incapable of the act of conjugation, or any true generative act, without which no organism rising to any stage of life higher than vegetable can be said to be complete.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

Like Aristotle, Leibniz attributes reality to individual substances, which he calls "monads"; and like Aristotle he conceives these monads to compose an ascending order, with God, the monad of monads, as its dominating goal.

The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916