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Definition of Dualism

1. 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.

Definition of Dualism

1. n. State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction

Definition of Dualism

1. Noun. Duality; the condition of being double. ¹

2. Noun. (philosophy) 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. ¹

3. Noun. (theology) 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dualism

1. a philosophical theory [n -S]

Medical Definition of Dualism

1. State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction; as: 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) Origin: Cf. F. Dualisme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Dualism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The essential characteristic of the Catharist faith was dualism, ie the belief in a good and an evil principle, of whom the former created the invisible and ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The dogmatic and ethical dualism evolved in Pauli- ... This dualism, which was regarded as merely transitory, gave rise to three divisions of the ..."

3. Introduction to Philosophy by Wilhelm Jerusalem (1910)
"appears to me therefore that this attempt at a monistic world-theory, although of vast significance, does not entirely clear itself of dualism. ..."

4. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1875)
"dualism in systematic Chemistry is as useful as Inertia in Mechanics, ... It is useless then to discuss the objective truth of Chemical dualism. ..."

5. A Study of Ethical Principles by James Seth (1905)
"The ethical dualism. Its theoretical expression. —The preceding discussion has revealed a fundamental dualism in ethical theory, corresponding to a ..."

6. The Problem of Knowledge by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1915)
"Absolute epistemological dualism, then, is the doctrine "that perceived ... It must be quite evident that this absolute dualism cannot promise much as a ..."

7. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"... at once the grand Application of principle of the dualism which pervades the principle chemistry, and constitutes its homogeneous °^ dualism, character, ..."

8. The Persistent Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1912)
"Thus, 'pluralistic dualism' means, '(numerically) pluralistic (qualitative) ... (dualism is a form of pluralism, here a doctrine of two kinds of reality. ..."

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