monad

/ˈmɒnæd/

noun

(philosophy) An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible. / (botany) A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group.

The concept of monad is central to Leibniz's philosophy.

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(philosophy) An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.

Hence Leibnitz, who looked upon things as noumena, after denying them everything like external relation, and therefore also composition or combination, declared that all substances, even the component parts of matter, were simple substances with powers of representation, in one word, monads.

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