Dualism
21Dualism (law) — Dualism is a legal concept which contends that national law and international law are two separate and distinct areas of law. It can be contrasted with the legal theory of monism which contends the opposite. Can regard specifically to the… …
22Dualism (philosophy of mind) — René Descartes s illustration of dualism. Inputs are passed on by the sensory organs to the epiphysis in the brain and from there to the immaterial spirit. In philosophy of mind, dualism is a set of views about the relationship between mind and… …
23Dualism (politics) — In Dutch politics the term dualism is used to refer to the separation of powers between the Dutch cabinet and parliament. In this respect, the way the Dutch cabinets function is somewhere in between the USA and UK systems of government. Unlike… …
24dualism, economic — See economic dualism …
25dualism — noun Date: 1794 1. a theory that considers reality to consist of two irreducible elements or modes 2. the quality or state of being dual or of having a dual nature 3. a. a doctrine that the universe is under the dominion of two opposing… …
26dualism — noun a) Duality; the condition of being double. b) 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 …
27dualism — 1. In chemistry, a theory advanced by Berzelius that every compound, no matter how many elements enter into it, is composed of two parts, one electrically negative, the other positive; still applicable, with modification, to polar compounds, but… …
28dualism — Synonyms and related words: Janus, acosmism, allotheism, ambiguity, ambivalence, anthropolatry, anthropomorphism, anthropotheism, autotheism, biformity, bifurcation, conjugation, cosmotheism, deism, dichotomy, ditheism, doubleness, doublethink,… …
29DUALISM — or MANICHÆISM the doctrine that there are two opposite and independently existing principles which go to constitute every concrete thing throughout the universe, such as a principle of good and a principle of evil, light and darkness, life… …
30dualism — The term for a belief that there is an absolute distinction between light and darkness, good and evil, God and Satan. In Zoroastrianism [[➝ Zoroaster]] the evil spirit is regarded as existing independently of the creator of good, but Hebrew… …
