Monad
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- Monad (Greek philosophy)Monad (Greek philosophy)Monad , according to the Pythagoreans, was a term for Divinity or the first being, or the totality of all beings, Monad being the source or the One meaning without division....
a term meaning "unit" used variously by ancient philosophers from the Pythagoreans to Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus to signify a variety of entities from a genus to God. - MonismMonismMonism is any philosophical view which holds that there is unity in a given field of inquiry. Accordingly, some philosophers may hold that the universe is one rather than dualistic or pluralistic...
, the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory - Monad (Gnosticism)Monad (Gnosticism)The Monad in early Christian gnostic writings is an adaption of concepts of the Monad in Greek philosophy to Christian gnostic belief systems.The term monad comes from the Greek feminine noun monas , "one unit," where the ending -s in the nominative form resolves to the ending -d in declension.In...
, the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism - MonadologyMonadologyThe Monadology is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads.- Text :...
, a book of philosophy by Gottfried Leibniz in which monads are a basic unit of perceptual reality - Monadologia Physica by Immanuel KantImmanuel KantImmanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....
- The Cup or Monad, a text in the Corpus HermeticaHermeticaThe Hermetica are Greek wisdom texts from the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, mostly presented as dialogues in which a teacher, generally identified with Hermes Trismegistus or "thrice-greatest Hermes", enlightens a disciple...
- Monad (category theory)Monad (category theory)In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a monad, Kleisli triple, or triple is an functor, together with two natural transformations...
, a construction in category theory - Monad (functional programming), functional programming constructs that capture various notions of computation
- Monad (non-standard analysis)Monad (non-standard analysis)In non-standard analysis, a monad is the set of points infinitely close to a given point.Given a hyperreal number x in R*, the monad of x is the set...
, describes the set of points infinitely close to a given point.
- Windows PowerShellWindows PowerShellWindows PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on top of, and integrated with the .NET Framework...
, a command line interface for Microsoft Windows code-named "Monad" - XmonadXmonadxmonad is a tiling window manager for the X Window System, written in the functional programming language Haskell.Begun in March 2007, it is similar to dwm, larswm, StumpWM and other members of the tiling window manager family, in that it arranges windows in a nonoverlapping tiled pattern and...
, a window manager for the X Window System - John Monad, title character of the television series John from CincinnatiJohn from CincinnatiJohn from Cincinnati is an American television drama, set against the surfing community of Imperial Beach, California, that aired on HBO from June 10, 2007 to August 12, 2007. It is the result of a collaborative effort between writer/producer David Milch and author Kem Nunn, whose novels have been...
- Monad Proxy, a character in the anime series Ergo ProxyErgo Proxyis a science fiction suspense anime television series, produced by Manglobe, which premiered across Japan on 25 February 2006 on the WOWOW satellite network. It is directed by Shukō Murase, with screenplay by Dai Satō et al.. Ergo Proxy has been described as dark science fiction mystery with...
- In the novel The World InsideThe World InsideThe World Inside is a science fiction novel written by Robert Silverberg and published in 1971. The novel's first chapter was first published in 1970 as a short story titled "A Happy Day in 2381"...
by Robert Silverberg, almost a hundred billion humans live in megastructureMegastructureA megastructure is a very large manmade object, though the limits of precisely how large this is vary considerably. Some apply the term to any especially large or tall building....
skyscrapers called monads
- The Monad is the combination of the last two principles in man, the 6th and the 7th.
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