What's the difference between modist and monist?

Modist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who follows the fashion.

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Monist


Definition:

  • (n.) A believer in monism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This essay eschews reductionist, dualist, and identity-theory attempts to resolve this problem, and offers an ontology--"monistic dual-aspect interactionism"--for the biopsychosocial model.
  • (2) Monistate Cream, in this study, was found to be a safe and effective drug in treating both pregnant and nonpregnant patients with confirmed candidiasis.
  • (3) He viewed man as a physiologist, as a materialist, and as a monist.
  • (4) This article briefly recapitulates the major perspectives on the problem, examines the relationship of meaning and mind to psychosocial and biological explanatory programs and to materiality, and promotes a monistic dual aspect interactionist approach to mind and body in health and illness.
  • (5) According to S. Freud's theories about the individual uniqueness and to G. A. Kelly's personal construct theory, the authors try to determine a monistic concept of the human being also from the clinical standpoint.
  • (6) Each of these possibilities offers conceptual advantages and disadvantages, so that it is difficult to adopt a monistic stance.
  • (7) The author discusses Freudian dualistic conception of drives and contends that it can be reduced to a monistic one, on the basis of modern conceptions of Biology, and after scanning the original writings of Freud on the subject of drive and instinct.
  • (8) The relationship between reading comprehension, listening comprehension, and two indicators of intelligence (verbal reasoning, speed of information processing) is analyzed on the basis of a hierarchical monistic model.
  • (9) Here, the old struggle between dualists and monists has awakened to new life.
  • (10) From Thorndike's connectionism to Pavlov's classical conditioning, Hull's monistic theory, Mowrer's two-factor theory, and Skinner's operant theory, there have been several divergent accounts of the conditions that produce imitation and the conditions under which imitation itself may facilitate language acquisition.
  • (11) The establishment of a bio-psycho-social (monistic) approach to all problems of human health and disease is regarded as an essential prerequisite for the improvement of medical care.
  • (12) This paper describes in detail two approaches to that process: monistic and pluralistic.
  • (13) The delay-and-antedating hypothesis does not provide a formally definitive contradiction of monist-identity theory (of the mind-brain relationship).
  • (14) Instead of further investigation on the problem of "unity", or on monistic or dualistic views of the mind-body problem, we propose a new theoretical approach.
  • (15) This report reevaluates Kohut's monistic interpretive methodology: (1) The principal features of Kohut's interpretive method are reviewed and evaluated.
  • (16) He differentiates between monistic theories, such as Immanuel Kant's, which rely on a single moral principle, and pluralistic theories, such as that of W.D.
  • (17) He believes the monistic psychobiological theory to be the most pertinent at present.

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