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Monist

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mo·nism  (mnzm, mnzm)
n. Philosophy
1. The view in metaphysics that reality is a unified whole and that all existing things can be ascribed to or described by a single concept or system.
2. The doctrine that mind and matter are formed from, or reducible to, the same ultimate substance or principle of being.
monist n.
mo·nistic (m-nstk, m-) adj.
mo·nisti·cal·ly adv.
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Norton's another monist - only he affirms naught but spirit.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
* An idealistic monist who long puzzled the philosophers of that time with his denial of the existence of matter, but whose clever argument was finally demolished when the new empiric facts of science were philosophically generalized.
The Iron Heel by London, Jack View in context
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