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*Monad, as a symbol of God or "totality" is known in several philosophical circles: | *Monad, as a symbol of God or "totality" is known in several philosophical circles: | ||
**], the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence | **], the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence | ||
**], in Gnosticism. | |||
**], ''The Cup or Monad'' | |||
**'']'', a view of monads by Gottfried Leibniz | **'']'', a view of monads by Gottfried Leibniz | ||
**], a well known symbol deriving from Chinese culture which represents the principle of yin and yang from Taoist and Neo-Confucian philosophy. | **], a well known symbol deriving from Chinese culture which represents the principle of yin and yang from Taoist and Neo-Confucian philosophy. |
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Monad, Latin for unit, comes from the Greek word monos or μονάς (from the word μόνος, which means "one", "single", or "unique"), and may refer to:
- Monad, as a symbol of God or "totality" is known in several philosophical circles:
- Monism, the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence
- Monadology, a view of monads by Gottfried Leibniz
- Monad (Chinese symbol), a well known symbol deriving from Chinese culture which represents the principle of yin and yang from Taoist and Neo-Confucian philosophy.
Other uses of Monad include:
- Non-standard analysis, a field in which a monad describes all numbers infinitesimally close to a given number
- Monad (category theory), a type of functor
- Monads in functional programming are type constructors that are used in functional programming languages to capture various notions of sequential computation
- Monad (Technocracy), the symbol for Technocracy Incorporated (and the Technocratic movement).
- Windows PowerShell, a command line interface for Microsoft Windows, code-named "Monad".
See also
Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Monad.If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Category: