(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.
Pantheism
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine that the universe, taken or conceived of as a whole, is God; the doctrine that there is no God but the combined force and laws which are manifested in the existing universe; cosmotheism.
Example Sentences:
(1) But in the last century, some druidic orders began hearkening to the rising tides of paganism and pantheism, and by the time hippies and crusties began gathering at the stones to celebrate the solstice, there was at least some common cause between the men with goat-headed staffs and those with long white robes.