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#context|chemistry|rare The state of being univalent
#philosophy The view, dating from w:Parmenides|Parmenides, that whatever exists must always have existed and cannot ever change or cease to exist.
#*1998, Margaret Archer and Andrew Collier, Critical Realism: Essential Readings, p. 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, p. 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), p. 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.''
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