OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13591

monad

/ˈmɒnæd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mónada
An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
Hence Leibnitz, who looked upon things as noumena, after denying them everything like external relation, and therefore also composition or combination, declared that all substances…
“If we are to embark upon speculation”, said Goethe, continuing his discourse, “then I really do not see why the monad to which we owe Wieland's appearance on our planet should be…
mónada
A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category.
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