dualism

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Duality; the condition of being double.

   By breaking free of it, historians could shed the dualisms that now entrap them, and escape the declensionism - the longing for the lost alternative.

2. 2
   noun

   The belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces, such as good and evil; the belief that man has two basic natures, the physical and the spiritual.

   The same conflict between the monism of temporal theorists and the dualism of ecclesiastical thinkers—the same opposition of organic to symbiotic union—occurred in the ninth century.

3. 3
   noun

   the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

4. 4
   noun

   The view that the world consists of, or is explicable in terms of, two fundamental principles, such as mind and matter or good and evil.

Common collocations

• epistemological dualism Adjective + noun

From dual + -ism.

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