monism

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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.

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The doctrine that mind and matter are formed from, or reducible to, the same ultimate substance or principle of being.

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Any system of thought which seeks to deduce all the varied phenomena of both the physical and spiritual worlds from a single principle; specifically, the metaphysical doctrine that there is but one substance, either mind (idealism) or matter (materialism), or a substance that is neither mind nor matter, but is the substantial ground of both: opposed to dualism.

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Any theory or system which attempts to explain many heterogeneous phenomena by a single principle.

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In biology, same as monogenesis .

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That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; — the opposite of dualism.

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See Monogenesis, 1.

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The doctrine that the universe is an organized unitary being or total self-inclusive structure.

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The doctrine of the oneness and unity of reality, despite the appearance of diversity in the world.

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the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element