A study of the principles of thought by which one may distinguish correct from incorrect reasoning. That which knows, perceives, understands, thinks, imagines, conceives, reasons, and wills. To a materialist, mind is either synonymous with brain, or is produced by brain. To a critical realist, mind is an immaterial entity or substance with personal consciousness. One principle or nature is all that it takes to explain everything in reality.
Primary monisms are idealism and materialism.
In epistemology, the theory that the idea and the object known are one in the cognitive act. In ontology, the quality of a being that is eternal and needs nothing else to exist or continue to exist. The theory that universals are not real but only class names. Sometimes informally as creative inspiration. That which relates to objects in reality that are supposedly the same for all experiences.