‘Into the Cool’ is exactly the kind of monist ‘Unified Theory’ material I was referring to. From Wordnik.com. [SMART Grant Update - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Aristotle is much more of a monist than his teacher. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The doubts of the agnostic were only the dogmas of the monist. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
It is odd though that an existence monist would count claims like. From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
Thomson's target, is a foundational monist and normative pluralist. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
He was a pluralist, rather than a monist, regarding intrinsic value. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Utilitarianism] Reference
It is not at all easy to say whether the view would be monist or pluralist. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
So for instance, one might be an existence pluralist but a priority monist. From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
Here the priority monist might invoke the following passage from Blanshard. From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
The existence monist might also offer an indirect correspondence theory of truth. From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
A theory that tells us that welfare is the only value may only be nominally monist. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
Likewise the substance pluralist for t1 counted by u1 might be a monist for t1 counted by u2. From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
The materialist, idealist, and neutral monist are all monists of this sort (substance monism). From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
Huntington was not an environmental monist, nor did he deny the operation of many other factors. From Wordnik.com. [ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE] Reference
That is to say, such an existence-monist believes that to exist is to have a place in space-time. From Wordnik.com. [AGNOSTICISM] Reference
If the answer is ˜nothing™, then the view seems genuinely monist, but is probably implausible. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
Now it should be clear how the monist can make sense of phenomena like higher and lower pleasures. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
If, of two options one will contribute more basic value, the monist must obviously choose that one. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
So much the worse for such principles of restricted composition, the existence monist might respond. From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
The priority monist holds that whole is prior to part, and that the maximal whole is ultimately prior. From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
Notice that the monist theories I am imagining here are foundationally monist and normatively pluralist. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
He rightly criticises monist arguments as being dangerous, but his own argument is actually itself monist. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
So the priority monist should conclude that, if anything, the argument from commonsense should be reversed. From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
If a theory is to be properly monist then, it must have an account of the good that is satisfactorily unitary. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
From our point of view, there is regret, and the monist can explain why that is without appealing to irrationality. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
Mill's higher and lower pleasures, which seem to be plural values, might be accommodated by the monist in this way. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
(I shall return to the issue of how a foundational monist like Moore can account for organic unities in section 2.1.). From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
Or the substance monist might be a nihilist for t2 counted by u1, by being an eliminative nominalist about properties. From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
Swanton's point is that the only explanation the monist has is that different degrees of value merit different responses. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
Another promising strategy that the monist can use in order to explain the complexity in our value choices is the appeal to. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
On the other hand the monist cannot appeal to anything other than quantity of value in appraising the morality of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
The philosopher who holds that there is a highest genus with many species would be a monist about the number of highest categories. From Wordnik.com. [Monism] Reference
Stocker argues that goods become different values in different temporal situations, and the monist cannot accommodate this thought. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
` So, too, was his argument for pluralism and an open universe against those who contend for a monist system and a closed universe. '. From Wordnik.com. [Genuine Reality: A Life of William James] Reference
Mill goes on to give an account of what he means which is consistent with a pluralist interpretation or with a monist interpretation. From Wordnik.com. [Value Pluralism] Reference
F. Anstey's 1882 novel Vice Versa makes sense to a dualist, but strictly should be incomprehensible to a dyed-in-the-wool monist like me. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
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