noun
- Plural of monadism; philosophical doctrines or systems based on the concept of monads (indivisible, fundamental units of reality or substance).
- Instances or expressions of monadism; the belief that reality consists of independent, irreducible monads.
Usage: philosophy; formal; rare
Usage: philosophy; formal; rare
Examples
- Leibniz's monadisms represented a radical departure from Cartesian dualism.
- Various monadisms emerged in early modern philosophy as attempts to explain the nature of substance.
- The philosopher explored different monadisms to understand how individual entities relate to the whole.
- Monadisms propose that the universe is composed of simple, indivisible units rather than extended matter.