monovalence

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ valence.

Noun

monovalence (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, rare) The state of being univalent.
2. (philosophy) The view, dating from Parmenides, that whatever exists must always have existed and cannot ever change or cease to exist.
   • 1998, Margaret Archer, Andrew Collier, Critical Realism: Essential Readings, page xxii:

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

   • 2003, Justin Cruickshank, Critical Realism: the difference it makes, page 34:

     Yet, if the critique of Dialectic is to be followed then these positive aspects of Hegel are swallowed up by his monovalence.

   • 2005, Douglas A. Foster, The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), page 627:

     The Movement's profound embrace of “Common Sense” philosophy, with its conviction of the monovalence of truth, led to the assumption that all properly thinking people think alike.