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monadic

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One. A single item or operation. An instruction with one operand.


1.(programming)monadic - unary, when describing an operator or function. The term is part of the dyadic, niladic sequence.
2.(theory)monadic - See monad.

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That such a monadic view of human nature ignores even the destructive side of man's sociability--seen, for example, in men's instinct to form into mutually antagonistic clans such as those causing so much violence and unrest in Iraq--seems to escape Berns.
Reading challenges these perspectives permitting one a glance at the monadic character of one's former orientation.
Like the latter's gaze into the abyss, Baraka's poem carries out a symbolic destruction and ritual purification both of an idealized yet decrepit tradition and of the monadic self situated within.
 
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