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tomlockwood
on Sept 3, 2019
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Names do not transmit meaning
One of the funny things about "Monad" is that philosophers will probably come to it with a fairly rich concept of what a monad is, since it has been used since ancient Greece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(philosophy)
openfuture
on Sept 3, 2019
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This is called Unit in the context which we are discussing.
A monad is a different concept in this context.
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