What's the difference between monism and monist?

Monism


Definition:

  • (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.

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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