monadistn.adj.

1795 H. Hunter tr. L. Euler Lett. to German Princess II. 48 The objection founded on the ultimate particles of bodies, raised by the monadists in support of their system.

1838 F. Haywood tr. I. Kant Critick Pure Reason i. 343 Objections against this proposition of an infinite division of matter..are advanced by the Monadists.

1889 Mind 14 440 If a monadist, rejecting creation, were to affirm the pre-existence of all monads from eternity, then his position would seem to be exempt from any counter-attack.

1900 B. Russell Crit. Expos. Philos. Leibniz §78. 136 A Monadist must, with Leibniz, maintain the mutual independence of substances.

1932 Mind 41 518 Leibniz..the great Monadist.

1952 Philos. Q. 2 383 The theorist of metaphysics as a human activity, who wishes to penetrate the style which differentiates the theist from the absolutist or monadist, will find his needs most admirably met here.

1893 Philos. Rev. 2 201 The theory of ‘pluralism’ or ‘monadist realism’ which in Mr. Schiller's view is the only alternative to the scepticism that results from what he calls ‘the failure of epistemology’.

1989 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 49 712 This point hardly undermines the monadist position.