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Monism attributes oneness or singleness to a concept, such as existence. Various kinds of monism can be distinguished:
* Priority monism states that all existing things go back to a source that is distinct from them; e.g., in Neoplatonism everything is derived from The One. In this view only the One is ontologically fundamental or prior to everything else.
* Existence monism posits that, strictly speaking, there exists only a single thing, the universe,

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