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monadic, a.|mɒˈnædɪk|
[ad. Gr. µοναδικός composed of units, f. µοναδ-, µονάς monad.]
1. a. Composed of monads or units; pertaining to or of the nature of a monad; existing singly. Also quasi-n., that which is composed of units.
1788T. Taylor Proclus I. Diss. 14 The monadic, or that which is composed from certain units, they justly considered as nothing more than the image of essential number. 1839Bailey Festus xxvii. (1852) 467 In this fatal life There is no real union. All things here Seem of monadic nature. 1858J. Hadley Ess. (1873) 342 So, too, we have the seven openings of the head, the three twin pairs of eyes, ears, and nostrils, with the monadic mouth to make the seventh. 1872Browning Fifine xlviii, What does it give for germ, monadic mere intent Of mind in face? 1873Contemp. Rev. XXII. 45 Personality, self-consciousness, and freedom of the will, is rather the power of breaking through the limits of relative monadic existence, of expanding into the infinite by consciousness and will. 1875J. H. Newman Let. Dk. Norfolk 27 We cannot take as much as we please, and no more, of an institution which has a monadic existence.
b. Philos. Of a proposition, fact, function, etc., or the predicate contained therein, when the predicate is non-relational and applies to only one subject term.
1897C. S. Peirce in Monist VII. 167 A non-relative name with a substantive verb, as ‘—is a man’,..has one blank; it is a monad, or monadic relative. 1921W. E. Johnson Logic I. 203 The number of substantival references are respectively one, two, three and four, and the corresponding adjectives or propositions may be called monadic, diadic, triadic and tetradic. 1939Mind XLVIII. 486 It appears sometimes to be assumed that the elementary statement must be monadic, i.e., must have the form of a one-termed predicate, ϕx. 1946C. Morris Signs, Language & Behavior iii. 78 ‘Black’ is in this sense monadic... ‘Deer’ and ‘black’ are both monadic... But it would often be added that ‘deer’ designates an object and ‘black’ a quality of an object. 1956J. O. Urmson Philos. Analysis ii. 17 A fact in which a particular has some absolutely simple and determinate characteristic was known as a monadic fact. 1963W. W. Lambert in S. Koch Psychol. VI. 177 Most studies in general experimental psychology are carried out in terms of a monadic rather than a dyadic character. 1965Hughes & Londey Elem. of Formal Logic xxxix. 274 Such a schema might contain only monadic predicate variables (e.g. ‘fx ⊃ gy’).
2. Chem. Of the nature of a monad; univalent.
1877Watts Fownes' Chem. (ed. 12) I. 262 Potassium forms only one chloride, KCl, and is therefore univalent or monadic.
3. Relating to monadism.
1862Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. IV. viii. §72. 517 Leibnitz, whose monadic tendencies may have placed him..at no very great distance from his opponent. 1874Morris tr. Ueberweg's Hist. Philos. §121 II. 145 Kant..brings the monadic nearer to the atomistic doctrine. |