monad
Example Sentences
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Each monad has its own destiny, and it acts and moves entirely of its own accord.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 29, 2016
There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Leibniz's monadology, since each monad mirrored the whole universe, there was in each perspective a "sensibile" which was an appearance of each thing.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
For if the intelligent dog or elephant have existence in the future, so may the fish, the mollusk, the monad, and even the speck of protoplasm, which loses itself in unorganic matter.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
Pythagoras held that the unit or monad is the principle and end of all.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten
