This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Harmil (talk | contribs) at 02:36, 18 July 2006 (These two links are very specifically "monad" related. One is the "monad (gnosticism)" page, and the other is a book sub-titled "The Cup or Monad". Seems fair to disambiguate them). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Revision as of 02:36, 18 July 2006 by Harmil (talk | contribs) (These two links are very specifically "monad" related. One is the "monad (gnosticism)" page, and the other is a book sub-titled "The Cup or Monad". Seems fair to disambiguate them)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Monad comes from the Greek word μονάς (from the word μόνος, which means "one", "single", "unique") and may refer to:
- Monad, a symbol of God or totality is known in several philosophical circles
- Monism, the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence
- Monad (Gnosticism), in Gnosticism.
- Hermetica, The Cup or Monad
- 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.
Monad may also be:
- 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
- Windows PowerShell, a command line interface for Microsoft Windows: Monad its the codename
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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