Neutral Monism
Neutral Monism
Theory of American New Realism, derived from W. James essay “Does Consciousness Exist?”, Journal of Philosophy, 1904, which reduces the mental as well as physical to relations among neutral entities (i.e. entities which are in themselves neither mental nor physical). The theory is qualitatively monistic in its admission of only one kind of ultimate reality viz. neutral or subsistent entities but is numerically pluralistic in acknowledging a multiplicity of independent reals. — L.W,