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Monism (from Greek monos, ‘single’) is (roughly) the philosophical doctrine that there is really only one sort of stuff. Materialists often claim that mental things are really physical, and that there is really only one sort of stuff, the physical. Idealists claim that physical things are really mental, and that there is really only one sort of stuff, the mental. Neutral monists are also monists, but they do not claim that the mental is physical, or that the physical is mental. Rather, both are made up from different arrangements of the same neutral stuff. AJ
See also dualism; idealism; materialism. |
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