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
It believes in a God who may be termed the supreme monad, i.e. the head of a system of monads; but whose power may be said, in certain respects, to be limited.
From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by Hardwick, John Charlton
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 Russell, Bertrand
Whence this process, inconceivable however symbolised, by which alike the monad and the man build themselves up into their respective structures?
From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)
