(n.) That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; -- the opposite of dualism.
(n.) See Monogenesis, 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, by construing ideation as a brain process, psychoneural monism explains how ideas (via behaviour) can become a motor of evolution as well as an outcome of it.
(2) First the various kinds of monism and pluralism that litter the scientific and philosophical literature are examined cursorily.
(3) Every monism has to be conceived at least as a dualism of properties.
(4) He advocates a kind of holy alliance between Christian physicians and theologians against the party dominating the Ecole de médecine, in which the ideology of the Encyclopédie together with Pinel's anticlericalism and Cabanis's materialistic monism prevail.