"nonism" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "Neo-Platonism \"tended to break the unity of life and thought which Christianity sought to establish,\" yet withal it prevented a too \"facile nonism.\"",
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          "text": "Shakespeare, of course, called life \"a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage...\" and James Thurber continued: \"It's a tale told in an idiom, full of unsoundness and fury, signifying nonism.\"",
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          "text": "I share Simmel's dialectical “neither-nor” position (not monism, but nonism), as formulated in the regulating principle of methodological pluralism: neither idealism, nor materialism, nor elementarism, nor emergentism. Taken individually, each of the metatheoretical permutation and theoretical positions based on them are insufficient, for each is biased; as a whole, however, they make it possible to construct a general, global and multidimensional theory of society.",
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