noun. The condition of being double; duality.

noun. The view that the world consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities, such as mind and matter.

noun. The view that the mind and body function separately, without interchange.

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noun. The concept that the world is ruled by the antagonistic forces of good and evil.

noun. The concept that humans have two basic natures, the physical and the spiritual.

noun. Division into two; a twofold division; duality.

noun. In philosophy, in general, that way of thinking which seeks to explain all sorts of phenomena by the assumption of two radically independent and absolute elements, without any continuous gradation between them: opposed to monism.

noun. To the doctrine of a double absolute, especially a principle of good and a principle of evil, or a male and a female principle.

noun. In theol.: The doctrine that there are two independent divine beings or eternal principles, one good and the other evil: characteristic especially of Parsism and various Gnostic systems.

noun. The heretical doctrine, attributed to Nestorius by his opponents, of the twofold personality of Christ, the divine logos dwelling as a separate and distinct person in the man Christ Jesus, and the union of the two natures being somewhat analogous to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the believer; that view of the personality of Christ which regards him as consisting of two personalities.

noun. In chem., a theory advanced by Berzelius which assumed that every compound, whether simple or complex, must be constituted of two parts of which one is positively and the other negatively electrified.

noun. In general, any system or theory involving a duality of principles

noun. A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit.

noun. A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.

noun. 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.

noun. The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.

noun. Duality; the condition of being double.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

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

"How - ever, the subjects in which the term dualism is most often employed are the history of religions and philoso - phy."

creatural dualism  ethical dualism  hypothetic dualism  monism  natural dualism  

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individualism  intellectualism  

agnosticism  alchemy  antithesis  demonology  determinism  

Janus  acosmism  allotheism  ambiguity  ambivalence