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  • noun Plural form of monist.

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Examples

  • And even as presented in the writings of Bruno, Spinoza, and other so-called monists prior to the present century, the hypothesis necessarily lacked completeness on account of the absence of knowledge afterwards supplied by physiology.

    Mind and Motion and Monism George John Romanes 1871

  • It's quite sad, as now the rest of the field will be tarnished, and it will be even harder for monists to survive in humanities departments.

    Slate's Report on Hauser Borders on Fraud GamesWithWords 2010

  • According to Aristotle the Milesians in general were material monists who advocated other kinds of ultimate matter: Thales water, Anaximander the boundless, Anaximenes air (Metaphysics 983b6-984a8).

    Doctor, My Eyes 2009

  • Avicennans such as Mirza Abu-l-Hasan Jilveh (d. 1896) and his students continued to defend an ontology of substances and metaphysical pluralism, while monists such as Muhammad Riza Qumshihi

    Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009

  • The third important issue in the debate between monists and pluralists, and the most central over recent decades, is that over the relationship between pluralism and incommensurability.

    Value Theory Schroeder, Mark 2008

  • We have just seen that one of the issues at stake in the debate between monists and pluralists about value turns on the question

    Value Theory Schroeder, Mark 2008

  • It is a problem the monists, dualists, and pluralists wrestled with.

    "To honor and celebrate" the "voices and votes" of the primaries, "both Senator Obama's and Senator Clinton's names will be placed in nomination." Ann Althouse 2008

  • This question only makes sense as a question about intrinsic values; clearly there is more than one instrumental value, and monists and pluralists will disagree, in many cases, not over whether something is of value, but over whether its value is intrinsic.

    Value Theory Schroeder, Mark 2008

  • This leads to the second major issue that is at stake in the debate between monists and pluralists.

    Value Theory Schroeder, Mark 2008

  • But even if we grant all of the assumptions on both sides so far, monists have the better of these two arguments.

    Value Theory Schroeder, Mark 2008

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