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dualism

noun

Etymology

From dual + -ism.

  1. borrowed from dualis — “two”
  2. formed as dualism — “dual + -ism”

Definitions

  1. Duality

    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. The view that the world consists of, or is explicable in terms of, two fundamental…

    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.

  3. The belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces, such as good and evil

    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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The legal doctrine that international law must be transposed into domestic law to have…

      The legal doctrine that international law must be transposed into domestic law to have effect.

    2. The theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite…

      The theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and having opposite chemical or electrical affinities.

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Derived

antidualism, Cartesian dualism, Gelasian dualism, German dualism, predicate dualism, property dualism, substance dualism

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dualism. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at dualism. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at dualism

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA