monovalence
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monovalence (uncountable)
- (chemistry, rare) The state of being univalent.
- (philosophy) The view, dating from Parmenides, that whatever exists must always have existed and cannot ever change or cease to exist.
- 1998, Margaret Archer, Andrew Collier, Critical Realism: Essential Readings, page xxii:
- The mystical shell of Hegelian dialectics is ontological monovalence, manifest inter alia in the absence of the concept of determinate absence.
- 2003, Justin Cruickshank, Critical Realism: the difference it makes, page 34:
- Yet, if the critique of Dialectic is to be followed then these positive aspects of Hegel are swallowed up by his monovalence.
- 2005, Douglas A. Foster, The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), page 627:
- The 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.