monadologicaladj.
/ˌmɒnadəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, /ˌməʊnadəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌmoʊnədəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l/ Philosophy.
Of or relating to monadology.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [adjective] > of branches of > of Leibniz or his doctrines
Leibnizian1765
monadic1843
monadical1875
monadological1879
monadistic1883
1879 Mind 4 294 This line of ‘monadological or individualistic’ speculation received less attention than the other line of more properly ‘monistic or dynamical’ thought.
1895 A. C. Armstrong tr. R. Falckenberg Hist. Mod. Philos. (new ed.) vii. 278 Leibnitz's..monadological and harmonistic principles.
1897 C. H. Judd tr. W. M. Wundt Outl. Psychol. 313 Matter is thought of as made up of similar [mental] atoms of a lower order (monistic, or monado-logical spiritualism).
1938 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 39 427 It must be a matter for consideration how far it is of any profit to be familiar with (e.g.) Leibniz's monadological religious metaphysic without his doctrine of the judgement.
1943 M. Farber Found. Phenomenol. xvi. 533 The objective world is ‘innate’ in the monado-logical world.
1957 R. Manheim tr. E. Cassirer Philos. Symbolic Forms III. ii. iv. 170 ‘Monadological’ time is the πρότερον τῇ ϕύσει, and..we can only thence arrive at mathematical-physical time.
1991 M. Heim in M. Benedikt Cyberspace (1993) 67 His monadological metaphysics alerts us to the paradoxes that are likely to engulf cyberspace's future inhabitants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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