MONADIC

The Monad was a symbol referred by the Greek philosophers as "The First", "The Seed", "The Essence", "The Builder", and "The Foundation"

• Monad, as a symbol of God or "totality" is known in several philosophical circles:
  • Monism, the metaphysical and theological view that all is of one essence
  • Monadology, a view of monads by Gottfried Leibniz
  • Monad (Chinese symbol), a well known symbol deriving from Chinese culture which represents the principle of yin and yang from Taoist and Neo-Confucian philosophy.

Other uses of Monad include:

• Non-standard analysis, a field in which a monad describes all numbers infinitesimally close to a given number^{[citation needed]}
• Monad (category theory), a type of functor
• Monads in functional programming are type constructors that are used in functional programming languages to capture various notions of sequential computation
• Monad (Technocracy), the symbol for Technocracy Incorporated (and the Technocratic movement).
• Windows PowerShell, a command line interface for Microsoft Windows, code-named "Monad".

See also

• Dyad
• Triad
• Tetrad
• Pentad
• Iamblichus of Chalcis
• Monadology

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