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Gottfried Leibniz. Monadology.
“Leibniz gives the name ‘monad’ to an absolutely simple substance. These absolutely simple substances must exist, because composite things exist.”
“In Leibniz’s system of metaphysics, monads are basic substances that make up the universe but lack spatial extension and hence are immaterial.”
“A monad is just a monoid in the caregory of endofunctors.” :))
What we talk about when we talk about monads