Monovalence

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being univalent. rare, uncountable
  2. 2
    The view, dating from Parmenides, that whatever exists must always have existed and cannot ever change or cease to exist. uncountable

    "The mystical shell of Hegelian dialectics is ontological monovalence, manifest inter alia in the absence of the concept of determinate absence."

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"The mystical shell of Hegelian dialectics is ontological monovalence, manifest inter alia in the absence of the concept of determinate absence."

Etymology

From mono- + valence.

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