The metaphysical view of reality that I support is from a monist position. Monism is believing that everything in the universe is one kind or type. To be more specific, the view within monism that I believe to be true is materialism. This is defined in our textbook The
Enduring Questions by Jerry H. Hill as a "belief that reality is composed exclusively of matter and its patterns of organization." In other words, it is a view that everything that actually exists is material, or physical. What it means to say something is material is that it is extended in space. …
