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一元論 (ichigenron) Japanese meaning: monism | Kotomora

一いち元げん論ろん

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Meanings

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monism

Philosophical term for the view that reality consists of one fundamental substance or principle.

一いち元げん論ろんは、精せい神しんと物ぶっ質しつを一ひとつの原げん理りで説せつ明めいしよう

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Monism attempts to explain mind and matter through a single principle.

Kanji

一one, one radical (no.1)
元beginning, former time, origin
論argument, discourse

Don't confuse with

一いち元げん化か
一元論 is a philosophical term for monism (the idea that reality is fundamentally one substance), not to be confused with 一元化, which is a practical act of administrative or organizational unification.

Built from

一いち元げん+論ろん

Etymology

From 一 (one) + 元 (origin, principle) + 論 (theory, argument). A modern philosophical term likely coined in the Meiji period as a translation of Western 'monism'.