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	Monad may refer to: In philosophy: Monad (Greek philosophy) Monad (Greek philosophy) Monad , which according to the Pythagoreans, was a term for God or the first being, or the totality of all beings. Monad being the source or the One meaning without division.... a term used by ancient philosophers Pythagoras, Parmenides, Xenophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus as a term for God or the first being, or the totality of all being. Monism Monism Monism is any philosophical view which holds that there is unity in a given field of inquiry, where this is not to be expected. Thus, some philosophers may hold that the Universe is really just one thing, despite its many appearances and diversities; or theology may support the view that there is one God, with many manifestations in different... , the concept of "one essence" in the metaphysical and theological theory Monad (Gnosticism) Monad (Gnosticism) In many Gnostic systems , the Supreme Being is known as the Monad, the One, The Absolute Aion teleos , Bythos , Proarche , and He Arche and The ineffable parent.... , the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism Monadology Monadology The *Monadology* is one of Gottfried Leibniz?s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances, or Monad .... , a book of philosophy by Gottfried Leibniz in which monads are a basic unit of perceptual reality Monadologia Physica by Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German Philosophy from the Kingdom of Prussia city of K?nigsberg . He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and of the late Age of Enlightenment.... The Cup or Monad, a text in the Corpus Hermetica Hermetica Hermetica is a category of popular Late Antiquity literature purporting to contain secret wisdom, and generally attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, "thrice-great Hermes", a syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth.... In mathematics and computer science: Monad (category theory) Monad (category theory) In category theory, a monad or triple is an functor, together with two associated natural transformations. They are important in the theory of pairs of adjoint functors, and they generalize closure operators on posets to arbitrary categories.... , a construction in category theory Monadic predicate calculus Monadic predicate calculus In logic, the monadic predicate calculus is the fragment of predicate calculus in which all predicate are unary operator , and there are no function letters.... is a form of logic based on unary operators Monad (functional programming), type constructors that are used in functional programming languages to capture various notions of computation Monad (non-standard analysis) Monad (non-standard analysis) In non-standard analysis, a monad is the set of points infinitely close to a given point.Given a hyperreal number x in R, the monad of x is the set... , describes the set of points infinitely close to a given point. In music: Monad (music) Monad (music) In music, a monad* is a single note or pitch . The Western chromatic scale, for example, is composed of twelve monads. Monads are contrasted to dyad , groups of two notes, triad , groups of three, and so on.... , a single note, in contradistinction to a dyad, triad, tetrad, etc In proper names and popular culture: Monad (Technocracy) Monad (Technocracy) The monad is the official symbol of Technocracy Incorporated. Its colors are vermilion and the silver color found on the metal chromium, but a red and white version is acceptable for low-cost printing applications, or even black and white has been used.... , the symbol of Technocracy Incorporated and the Technocratic movement of North America Windows PowerShell Windows PowerShell Windows PowerShell is an extensible command line interface shell and associated scripting language from Microsoft. It was released in 2006 and is currently available for Windows XP SP2/SP3, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and is included in Windows Server 2008 as well as Windows 7 as an optional feature.... , a command line interface for Microsoft Windows code-named "Monad" Xmonad Xmonad xmonad is a tiling window manager for the X Window System, written in the Functional programming Haskell .Begun in March 2007, it is similar to dwm, larswm, Stumpwm and other members of the tiling window manager family, in that it strives to make it possible for the user to productively manage windows without the use of the Mouse .... , a window manager for the X Window System John Monad, title character of the television series John from Cincinnati John from Cincinnati *John from Cincinnati* is an United States television drama, set against the surfing community of Imperial Beach, California, that aired on HBO from June 10, 2007 to August 12, 2007....