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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Monism  \Mon"ism\,  n.  [From  Gr  ?  single.] 
  1.  (Metaph.)  That  doctrine  which  refers  all  phenomena  to  a 
  single  ultimate  constituent  or  agent;  --  the  opposite  of 
  dualism. 
 
  Note:  The  doctrine  has  been  held  in  three  generic  forms: 
  matter  and  its  phenomena  have  been  explained  as  a 
  modification  of  mind,  involving  an  idealistic  monism; 
  or  mind  has  been  explained  by  and  resolved  into  matter, 
  giving  a  materialistic  monism;  or  thirdly,  matter, 
  mind,  and  their  phenomena  have  been  held  to  be 
  manifestations  or  modifications  of  some  one  substance, 
  like  the  substance  of  Spinoza,  or  a  supposed  unknown 
  something  of  some  evolutionists,  which  is  capable  of  an 
  objective  and  subjective  aspect. 
 
  2.  (Biol.)  See  {Monogenesis},  1. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Monogenesis  \Mon`o*gen"e*sis\,  n.  [Mono-  +  genesis.] 
  1.  Oneness  of  origin;  esp.  (Biol.),  development  of  all  beings 
  in  the  universe  from  a  single  cell;  --  opposed  to 
  {polygenesis}.  Called  also  {monism}.  --Dana.  --Haeckel. 
 
  2.  (Biol.)  That  form  of  reproduction  which  requires  but  one 
  parent,  as  in  reproduction  by  fission  or  in  the  formation 
  of  buds,  etc.,  which  drop  off  and  form  new  individuals; 
  asexual  reproduction.  --Haeckel. 
 
  3.  (Biol.)  The  direct  development  of  an  embryo,  without 
  metamorphosis,  into  an  organism  similar  to  the  parent 
  organism;  --  opposed  to  {metagenesis}.  --E.  van  Beneden 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Monism  \Mon"ism\,  n. 
  The  doctrine  that  the  universe  is  an  organized  unitary  being 
  or  total  self-inclusive  structure. 
 
  Monism  means  that  the  whole  of  reality,  i.e., 
  everything  that  is  constitutes  one  inseparable  and 
  indicisible  entirety.  Monism  accordingly  is  a  unitary 
  conception  of  the  world.  It  always  bears  in  mind  that 
  our  words  are  abstracts  representing  parts  or  features 
  of  the  One  and  All  and  not  separate  existences.  Not 
  only  are  matter  and  mind,  soul  and  body,  abstracts,  but 
  also  such  scientific  terms  as  atoms  and  molecules,  and 
  also  religious  terms  such  as  God  and  world.  --Paul 
  Carus. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  monism 
  n  :  the  doctrine  that  reality  consists  of  a  single  basic 
  substance  or  element




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