Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to monads; having the nature or character of a monad.
- Single; not occurring in pairs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or like, a monad, in any of its senses. See
monad , n.
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- adjective philosophy of or relating to a
monad - adjective chemistry
univalent - adjective biology of or relating to the Monas genus of
microorganisms - adjective mathematics having an
arity of one (taking a single argument or operand)
Etymologies
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Examples
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But this model gives little comfort to those who understand the theological equality of all local churches as dictating a structure of 'monadic' communities coexisting without acting upon each other.
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But this model gives little comfort to those who understand the theological equality of all local churches as dictating a structure of 'monadic' communities coexisting without acting upon each other.
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So his pure general logic is at most what we would now call a monadic logic (see Boolos &
Kant's Theory of Judgment Hanna, Robert 2009
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One must bear in mind, however, that Benjamin's monadology of the Arcades always reverts to an understanding of language and its role in configuring experience, a deductive regression also characteristic of Leibniz's formulation of monadic substance.
Club Monad 2008
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What's more, the obscurity — the perspectival nature — of monadic perception is not simply unavoidable: it is constitutive of individual substances.
Club Monad 2008
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When in this essay the verbal topology of monadic substance offers
Rei Terada 2008
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Schlegel's monadic model of the poetic fragment, and the unmarked "placeless places" of modern nightlife, showing how poetry finds in the monad an evocative figure for its own project of externalizing interiority.
Rei Terada 2008
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Leibniz's theory of monadic "perception" is obscure in part because it does not involve — in its most rudimentary form — the experience of sense perception, or sensation; it erodes the absolute distinction (dear to Kant) between thinking and perceiving — an idea of explosive importance for
Club Monad 2008
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Tiffany argues that an affinity-based model of culture may be understood through a dialogue between Leibniz's monadic thought and the "placeless places" of modern nightlife.
About This Volume 2008
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The psychological inflection of monadic substance thus activated a series of transitive relations between
Club Monad 2008
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