dualismn.
/ˈdjuːəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˈdʒuːəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈd(j)uəˌlɪzəm/ 1. The condition or state of being dual or consisting of two parts; twofold division; duality.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > duality > [noun]
doublenessa1398
duality1532
duplicity1589
biformity1611
duity1645
twoness1648
dualism1833
twofoldnessa1834
duplexity1856
1833 T. Carlyle Diderot in Misc. Ess. (1872) V. 53 Among the dualisms of man's wholly dualistic nature, this we might fancy was an observable one.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ix. 67/2 In Teufelsdröckh there is always the strangest Dualism.
1841 R. W. Emerson Compensation in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 97 An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole.
1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant Introd. ii. 12 A dualism between knowing and being, between the ‘me’ and the ‘not me’.
2. Grammar. The fact of expressing two in number.
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1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. vii. 276 We find many others [languages] in which the formal expression of plurality has never passed beyond that of dualism.
3. A theory or system of thought which recognizes two independent principles. spec.: (a) (Philosophy) the doctrine that mind and matter exist as distinct entities; opposed to idealism and materialism; (b) the doctrine that there are two independent principles, one good and the other evil; (c) (Theology) the doctrine, attributed by his opponents to Nestorius, that Christ consisted of two personalities.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [noun] > dualism
dualism1794
1794 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. I 18 Then he introduces..the two principles or dualism (a little more French jargon) the monde animé, and the monde machine.
1847 C. W. Buch tr. K. R. Hagenbach Compend. Hist. Doctr. I. 93 The Gnostic doctrine of two supreme beings (dualism).
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. xvi. 293 I would be inclined to denominate those who implicitly acquiesce in the primitive duality as given in consciousness, the Natural Realists or Natural Dualists, and their doctrine, Natural Realism or Natural Dualism.
1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel viii-ix. 529 The characteristic error of the Zend religion, its Dualism, was its blot from the first.
1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. iv. 148 Manicheeism was the Dualism which had acquired a Christian flavour by coming into contact with Christianity.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 263 The dualism—the existence of matter as the source of evil apart from God—finds a distinct expression in the Wisdom of Solomon.
1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 669 According to dualism existence itself is based on a contrariety which appears in philosophy as spirit and matter.
4. Chemistry. The theory, originated by Berzelius, now abandoned, that every compound is constituted of two parts which have opposite electricities.
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1884 M. M. P. Muir Treat. Princ. Chem. i. ii. iii. §54 Dumas' discovery of the chloracetic acids which marks the beginning of the revolt against the compound radicles of dualism.
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