Dualism
1Dualism — • Denotes the religious or theological system which would explain the universe as the outcome of two eternally opposed and coexisting principles Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Dualism Dualism …
2DUALISM — DUALISM, the religious or philosophical doctrine which holds that reality consists, or is the outcome, of two ultimate principles which cannot be reduced to one more ultimate first cause. Dualistic systems have appeared in philosophical… …
3dualism — Dualism is the doctrine that, in a certain respect, there are two things or two sorts of thing. The most common use of the word now among Christian philosophers is to refer to the doctrine (properly substance dualism ) that the human person is …
4dualism — DUALÍSM s.n. 1. Concepţie, doctrină care consideră ca principiu al existenţei două elemente diferite şi ireductibile, materia şi spiritul. 2. (impr.) Dualitate. 3. Formă de conducere statală realizată, în 1867, printr o uniune personală între… …
5Dualism — 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… …
6dualism — 1794, from Fr. dualisme (1755), in philosophical and theological senses; see DUAL (Cf. dual) + ISM (Cf. ism) …
7dualism — ► NOUN 1) division into two opposed or contrasted aspects, such as good and evil or mind and matter. 2) duality. DERIVATIVES dualist noun & adjective dualistic adjective …
8dualism — [do͞o′əliz΄əm, dyo͞o′əliz΄əm] n. 1. the state of being dual; duality 2. Philos. the theory that the world is ultimately composed of, or explicable in terms of, two basic entities, as mind and matter 3. Theol. a) the doctrine that there are two… …
9Dualism — For other uses, see Dualism (disambiguation). Dualism (from the Latin word duo meaning two ) denotes a state of two parts. The term dualism was originally coined to denote co eternal binary opposition, a meaning that is preserved in metaphysical… …
10dualism — dualist, n., adj. /dooh euh liz euhm, dyooh /, n. 1. the state of being dual or consisting of two parts; division into two. 2. Philos. a. the view that there are just two mutually irreducible substances. Cf. monism, pluralism. b. the view that… …
