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Dualism Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Dualism? [n] 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 Synonyms \| Synonyms for Dualism: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Dualism: acosmism \| allotheism \| ambiguity \| ambivalence \| anthropolatry \| anthropomorphism \| anthropotheism \| autotheism \| biformity \| bifurcation \| conjugation \| cosmotheism \| deism \| dichotomy \| ditheism \| doubleness \| doublethink \| doubling \| duality \| duplexity \| duplication \| duplicity \| dyotheism \| equivocality \| halving \| henotheism \| hylotheism \| irony \| Janus \| monolatry \| monotheism \| multitheism \| myriotheism \| pairing \| pantheism \| physicomorphism \| physitheism \| pluralism \| polarity \| polytheism \| psychotheism \| tetratheism \| theism \| theopantism \| theriotheism \| tritheism \| twinning \| two-facedness \| twoness \| zootheism See Also \| doctrine \| ism \| philosophy \| school of thought Dualism In Webster's Dictionary \Du"al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. dualisme.] State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction; as: (a) (Philos.) A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit. (Theol.) (b) A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil. (c) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate. (d) (Physiol.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other. An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole. --Emerson.

Dualism Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dualism?

[n] 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

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See Also | doctrine | ism | philosophy | school of thought

Dualism In Webster's Dictionary

\Du"al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. dualisme.]
State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any
system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold
distinction; as:
(a) (Philos.) A view of man as constituted of two original
    and independent elements, as matter and spirit. (Theol.)
(b) A system which accepts two gods, or two original
    principles, one good and the other evil.
(c) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the
    arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal
    foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the
    reprobate.
(d) (Physiol.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts
    independently of the other.

          An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each
          thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make
          it whole.                            --Emerson.

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