DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-N034-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved February 20, 2019, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/monism/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved February 20, 2019, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/monism/v-1
Article Summary
‘Monism’ is a very broad term, applicable to any doctrine which maintains either that there is ultimately only one thing, or only one kind of thing; it has also been used of the view that there is only one set of true beliefs. In these senses it is opposed to the equally broad term ‘pluralism’. But it is also often contrasted with ‘dualism’, since so much philosophical debate has focused on the question whether there are two different kinds of thing, mind and matter, or only one.
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