Meanings
- rareuncountablechemistryThe state of being univalent.
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe view, dating from Parmenides, that whatever exists must always have existed and cannot ever change or cease to exist.
Yet, if the critique of Dialectic is to be followed then these positive aspects of Hegel are swallowed up by his monovalence.
2003, Justin Cruickshank, Critical Realism: the difference it makes, page 342 more examples
The mystical shell of Hegelian dialectics is ontological monovalence, manifest inter alia in the absence of the concept of determinate absence.
1998, Margaret Archer, Andrew Collier, Critical Realism: Essential Readings, page xxiiThe Movement's profound embrace of “Common Sense” philosophy, with its conviction of the monovalence of truth, led to the assumption that all properly thinking people think alike.
2005, Douglas A. Foster, The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), page 627
Origin
- Ancient Greekμόνος (mónos)
- Ancient Greekμονο- (mono-)
- Englishmono-
- Englishvalence
- Englishmonovalence
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