What is another word for monistic?

Pronunciation: [mənˈɪstɪk] (IPA)

Monistic is a term that refers to the philosophical belief that reality is fundamentally one substance or entity. Synonyms for this word include monism, unitary, and holistic. Monism emphasizes the idea of a unified reality, while unitary focuses on the concept of oneness and unity. Holistic implies the idea of treating the whole system as one entity and considering all its parts in relation to one another. Other related terms might include non-dualism, which emphasizes the existence of one fundamental reality beyond dualities, and pantheism, which combines the belief in a unified reality with the idea that everything is divine or sacred.

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Usage examples for Monistic

Neither body nor mind seems less essential to our existence than the other; not only do we feel this as regards our own existence, but we feel it also as pervading the whole world of life; everywhere we see body and mind working together towards results that must be ascribed equally to both; but they are two, not one; if, then, we are to have our monistic conception, it would seem as though one of these must yield to the other; which, therefore, is it to be?
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
Among the more lawful of their desires was a craving after a monistic conception of the universe.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
The other group, holding a mechanical theory, expresses itself thus: The development of the universe is a monistic mechanical process, in which we discover no aim or purpose whatever; what we call design in the organic world is a special result of biological agencies; neither in the evolution of the heavenly bodies nor in that of the crust of our earth do we find any trace of a controlling purpose-all is the result of chance.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard

Famous quotes with Monistic

  • There certainly are changes of fashion in philosophy. When a new kind is in vogue, many things in the philosophy of an earlier day, which are of permanent value and perhaps highly relevant to contemporary problems, tend to be altogether forgotten or carelessly and ignorantly dismissed, simply because they occur in an out-of-date setting and are clad in an unfashionable dress. It is now quite certain that much of permanent value in Scholastic philosophy was ignored or contemned from this cause by Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and their followers. I have little doubt that the same is true mutatis mutandis of the attitude of many present-day philosophers towards the systems of monistic idealism which were fashionable at the beginning of this century. It is consoling to a philosopher's vanity not to pry too closely into the history of his subject, for otherwise he is liable to find that his discoveries have been anticipated and his fallacies refuted in advance by predecessors whom he has ignored or despised.
    C. D. Broad
  • The experience and ideas of contemporary science lead us to the only integral, the only monistic understanding of the universe. It appears before us as an inÂŽ nitely unfolding fabric of all types of forms and levels of organization, from the unknown elements of ether to human collectives and star systems. All these forms, in their interlacement and mutual struggle, in their constant changes, create the universal organizational process, inÂŽ nitely split in its parts, but continuous and unbroken in its whole.
    Alexander Bogdanov

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