Monism - Wikipedia
WEBMonism in modern philosophy of mind can be divided into three broad categories: Idealist, mentalistic monism, which holds that only mind or spirit exists. [1] Neutral monism, which holds that one sort of thing fundamentally exists, [23] to which both the mental and the physical can be reduced.
Monism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
WEBMar 19, 2007 · There are many monisms. What they share is that they attribute oneness. Where they differ is in what they target and how they count. This entry focuses on two of the more historically important monisms: existence monism and priority monism. Existence monism targets concrete objects and counts by tokens.
Monism | philosophy | Britannica
WEBPhilosophies are monistic if they show a strong sense of the unity of the world, dualistic if they stress its twoness, and pluralistic if they stress its manyness. Pantheism is typically monistic, finding in the world’s unity a sense of the…
Monism Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
WEB1. a. : a view that there is only one kind of ultimate substance. b. : the view that reality is one unitary organic whole with no independent parts. 2. : monogenesis. 3. : a viewpoint or theory that reduces all phenomena to one principle. monist. ˈmō-nist. ˈmä- noun. monistic. mō-ˈni-stik. mä- adjective. Examples of monism in a Sentence.
Neutral Monism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBFirst published Thu Feb 3, 2005; substantive revision Tue Jan 31, 2023. Neutral monism is a monistic metaphysics. It holds that ultimate reality is all of one kind. To this extent neutral monism is in agreement with the more familiar versions …
Monism - New World Encyclopedia
WEBThe term monism (from the Greek: μόνοςmonos or "one")—first used by the eighteenth-century German philosopher Christian Wolff to designate philosophical positions asserting either that everything is mental ( idealism) or that everything is material ( materialism ), in order to eliminate the dichotomy of mind and body —has more general applicabil...
Monism | Encyclopedia.com
WEBMay 21, 2018 · MONISM. A philosophical system or doctrine that reduces all of reality to some type of unity, or admits only one basic principle where other doctrines admit two (dualism) or more (pluralism). materialism, idealism, and pantheism are the major forms that monist philosophies assume.
Monism > Notes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
WEBBroad distinguishes three forms of monism: (i) Differentiating-Attribute Monism, which concerns the number of realms of substances (e.g., whether there is only the material realm); (ii) Specific-Property Monism, which concerns the number of kinds in a realm (e.g., whether there is only one kind of material substance); and (iii) Substantival Mon...
Pluralism and monism | Metaphysics, Ontology, Epistemology
WEBpluralism and monism, philosophical theories that answer “many” and “one,” respectively, to the distinct questions: how many kinds of things are there? and how many things are there? Different answers to each question are compatible, and the possible combination of views provide a popular way of viewing the history of philosophy.
Monism and Pluralism | Encyclopedia.com
WEBMonism is the doctrine that the answer to one or other of these questions is "Only one." Opposed to monism is the doctrine of pluralism, which is that there are many kinds of thing, or that there are many things.
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