singularismn.
/ˈsɪŋɡjʊlərɪz(ə)m/ A philosophy which explains the phenomena of the universe from a single principle: opposed to pluralism n. Cf. monism n.
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Unitarianism1830
monism1832
unitism1839
henism1881
singularism1897
neutral monism1914
1897 W. B. Pillsbury & E. B. Titchener tr. O. Külpe Introd. Philos. iii. 107 It is customary to distinguish the various views that can be held upon this question by the terms monism, dualism and pluralism. But as the difference expressed by the first two is..predominantly qualitative, it seems better to make a..quantitative antithesis, and to speak only of singularism and pluralism. The former explains or deduces all the phenomena of the universe from one single principle.
1911 J. Ward Realm of Ends 24 If the difficulties of Pluralism point the way to Singularism they will at least serve to make the character of the One clearer than any ‘cheap and easy monism’..can ever do.
1931 A. Wolf in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. xiii. 576 The philosophy of James is perhaps best understood as a reaction against the excessive intellectualism, and the monism or singularism of absolute idealism.
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