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Definition of dualism in English: dualismnoun ˈdjuːəlɪz(ə)mˈd(j)uəˌlɪzəm mass noun1The division of something conceptually into two opposed or contrasted aspects, or the state of being so divided. a dualism between man and nature Example sentencesExamples - Increasingly, evidence suggests that stereotypes and dualisms around young people's victimisation, and the fears of parents and other adults, need to be dispelled.
- Those dualisms are still deeply ingrained in common sense, which is why pragmatism is so counterintuitive.
- This is so because, in the Pauline view, reality is not viewed in terms of sharply contrasting ontological or epistemological dualisms.
- The differences between science and theology can become fruitful as long as we avoid the great frozen dualisms.
- Haraway has told us the power of ‘cyborg imagery’ lies in its ability to ‘suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves’.
- Cortes discouraged the tendency in education to think in dualisms, suggesting that media educators learn to re-frame questions so students understand they are not simply being charged with finding examples of forgone conclusions.
- When we want to emphasise their difference, we create dualisms and classify animals under the one headline 'animal'.
- I ask for them to see past their dualisms and embrace multiplicity.
- To some extent this reflects a fundamental feature of Western medicine, heir as it is to body-mind and mind-society dualisms.
- Combining streamlined efficiency with abstract decadence, American Art Deco reconciled these societal dualisms.
- Binary coding is culturally salient because Andean social organization and conceptual systems are primarily structured in dualisms.
- These dualisms - love and power, service and control, lay and clerical, to mention only a few that recur in the book - are far too easy.
- Young children's depictions move beyond dualisms and underscore how we can rid the world of oppression.
- Dropping those dualisms, he believes, will allow psychology to develop a more nuanced view of human behavior.
- We should be working to deconstruct and eliminate such reactionary dualisms and recognize that the oppression of humans and non-humans is tied-up in the same logic of domination.
- This kind of thing may be looking for dualisms where there aren't any.
- Yet theories that endorse the implosion and blurring of the traditionally drawn boundaries between conventionally accepted dualisms are not necessarily postmodern.
- These dualisms never resolve, never let us have a simple view of the style or subject of the picture.
- What is more, the Internet, as a form of a material culture, has worked to render other dualisms, especially that of production and consumption, ‘anachronistic’.
- Curry also suggests that Western mind-body dualisms, formalised at a Church Council of 869, helped astrology's decline as it is both subjective and objective and does not fit easily into this schema.
- 1.1Philosophy A theory or system of thought that regards a domain of reality in terms of two independent principles, especially mind and matter (Cartesian dualism).
Compare with idealism, materialism, monism Example sentencesExamples - Hence dualism itself does not preclude animal minds.
- It would be an interesting historical task to determine which kinds of dualism advocated by the philosophers of the past fall into which category, but there is no room for this task here.
- However, typically, ‘metaphysics’ refers to broad theories of reality, such as materialism and dualism, and to broad issues regarding the nature of reality.
- This Cudworth therefore interpreted Descartes' dualism with some latitude to explain all movement, life and action in terms of the activity of spirits operating on inert matter.
- Issues raised include the mind-body relation, materialism and dualism, the Cartesian view of matter, and the relations between religious beliefs and parapsychology.
- 1.2 The religious doctrine that the universe contains opposed powers of good and evil, especially seen as balanced equals.
Example sentencesExamples - I think the debate is - and should be - between two different forms of dualism: secular dualism and religious dualism.
- Such dualism, which in effect consigns the Other to perdition, is in modernity often a characteristic of fundamentalisms.
- This runs contrary to the Zoroastrian doctrine of dualism, which propounds the idea of two conflicting powers - good and evil.
- He discussed the philosophy of mathematics, political philosophy where topics such as censorship are discussed, and religious philosophy where topics such as atheism, dualism and pantheism are considered.
- That Persian religious dualism became the foundation of an ethical system that has lasted until this day.
- 1.3 (in Christian theology) the doctrine that Christ had two coexisting natures, human and divine.
Example sentencesExamples - Clearly, that would be a contemporary form of Manichean dualism amounting to a denial of God's lordship, power, and redemption.
2The quality or condition of being dual; duality. Example sentencesExamples - There was an interesting dichotomy between Samantha and Charly, almost like a dualism between femininity and masculinity.
- A similar dualism, a kind of double vision of the world is typical also for Ihan's poetry, which often brushes against the borders of poetic prose.
- As scenes in the fast moving episodes unfold, the music reconciles difference and similarity; it suggests dualism and unexplored complexity.
Synonyms doubleness, duplexity, ambivalence
Derivatives noun & adjective ˈdjuːəlɪst They were dualists who believed that the human being consisted of ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Example sentencesExamples - They were the members of Europe's first great dualist church, which flourished in Bulgaria and the Balkans from the 10th to the 15th century.
- In other words, it is hard to defend our punishment system if you are a dualist.
- The inescapable nature of dualist language is also present in Richard's description of Lentz.
- Cathars were dualists, believing in the co-existence of good (the soul) imprisoned within evil (the physical body).
adjective djuːəˈlɪstɪkˌd(j)uəˈlɪstɪk He also placed Emilie on a pedestal, torn by his own dualistic view of women as either pure or tarnished. Example sentencesExamples - It may free men and women from performing their constricted gendered roles that are dualistic, rigidly defined, and ultimately destructive.
- Perhaps even more significant, they were also adept at interpreting even the writings of the New Testament according to this dualistic code.
- India is a classic example of dualistic society, where an informal traditional segment coexists with a formal modern segment.
- The play also questions the dualistic class and power structures of his era.
adverbdjuːəˈlɪstɪk(ə)li As much as I myself disagree with both the tone and substance of some of Hauerwas' critiques of our society, I do not see how one can characterize him as dualistically rejecting or withdrawing from that society. Example sentencesExamples - But with mental states, dualistically conceived, the situation is quite the opposite.
- Somehow, the freedom of speech has been interpreted as justification for subjecting others to our personal, dualistically interpreted "truths."
- That fierce, tight clinging that you have to phenomena, experienced dualistically, will gradually loosen up, and your obsession with happiness and suffering, hopes and fears, etc., will slowly weaken.
- And those things begin when we think dualistically.
Origin Late 18th century: from dual, on the pattern of French dualisme. Definition of dualism in US English: dualismnounˈd(j)uəˌlɪzəmˈd(y)o͞oəˌlizəm 1The division of something conceptually into two opposed or contrasted aspects, or the state of being so divided. a dualism between man and nature Example sentencesExamples - This is so because, in the Pauline view, reality is not viewed in terms of sharply contrasting ontological or epistemological dualisms.
- I ask for them to see past their dualisms and embrace multiplicity.
- What is more, the Internet, as a form of a material culture, has worked to render other dualisms, especially that of production and consumption, ‘anachronistic’.
- Increasingly, evidence suggests that stereotypes and dualisms around young people's victimisation, and the fears of parents and other adults, need to be dispelled.
- Binary coding is culturally salient because Andean social organization and conceptual systems are primarily structured in dualisms.
- Combining streamlined efficiency with abstract decadence, American Art Deco reconciled these societal dualisms.
- We should be working to deconstruct and eliminate such reactionary dualisms and recognize that the oppression of humans and non-humans is tied-up in the same logic of domination.
- Curry also suggests that Western mind-body dualisms, formalised at a Church Council of 869, helped astrology's decline as it is both subjective and objective and does not fit easily into this schema.
- Haraway has told us the power of ‘cyborg imagery’ lies in its ability to ‘suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves’.
- Dropping those dualisms, he believes, will allow psychology to develop a more nuanced view of human behavior.
- These dualisms - love and power, service and control, lay and clerical, to mention only a few that recur in the book - are far too easy.
- This kind of thing may be looking for dualisms where there aren't any.
- These dualisms never resolve, never let us have a simple view of the style or subject of the picture.
- The differences between science and theology can become fruitful as long as we avoid the great frozen dualisms.
- Young children's depictions move beyond dualisms and underscore how we can rid the world of oppression.
- Cortes discouraged the tendency in education to think in dualisms, suggesting that media educators learn to re-frame questions so students understand they are not simply being charged with finding examples of forgone conclusions.
- To some extent this reflects a fundamental feature of Western medicine, heir as it is to body-mind and mind-society dualisms.
- Those dualisms are still deeply ingrained in common sense, which is why pragmatism is so counterintuitive.
- When we want to emphasise their difference, we create dualisms and classify animals under the one headline 'animal'.
- Yet theories that endorse the implosion and blurring of the traditionally drawn boundaries between conventionally accepted dualisms are not necessarily postmodern.
- 1.1Philosophy A theory or system of thought that regards a domain of reality in terms of two independent principles, especially mind and matter (Cartesian dualism).
Compare with idealism, materialism, monism Example sentencesExamples - It would be an interesting historical task to determine which kinds of dualism advocated by the philosophers of the past fall into which category, but there is no room for this task here.
- Hence dualism itself does not preclude animal minds.
- However, typically, ‘metaphysics’ refers to broad theories of reality, such as materialism and dualism, and to broad issues regarding the nature of reality.
- This Cudworth therefore interpreted Descartes' dualism with some latitude to explain all movement, life and action in terms of the activity of spirits operating on inert matter.
- Issues raised include the mind-body relation, materialism and dualism, the Cartesian view of matter, and the relations between religious beliefs and parapsychology.
- 1.2 The religious doctrine that the universe contains opposed powers of good and evil, especially seen as balanced equals.
Example sentencesExamples - This runs contrary to the Zoroastrian doctrine of dualism, which propounds the idea of two conflicting powers - good and evil.
- I think the debate is - and should be - between two different forms of dualism: secular dualism and religious dualism.
- Such dualism, which in effect consigns the Other to perdition, is in modernity often a characteristic of fundamentalisms.
- That Persian religious dualism became the foundation of an ethical system that has lasted until this day.
- He discussed the philosophy of mathematics, political philosophy where topics such as censorship are discussed, and religious philosophy where topics such as atheism, dualism and pantheism are considered.
- 1.3 In Christian theology, the heresy that in the incarnate Christ there were two coexisting persons, human and divine.
Example sentencesExamples - Clearly, that would be a contemporary form of Manichean dualism amounting to a denial of God's lordship, power, and redemption.
2The quality or condition of being dual; duality. Example sentencesExamples - There was an interesting dichotomy between Samantha and Charly, almost like a dualism between femininity and masculinity.
- A similar dualism, a kind of double vision of the world is typical also for Ihan's poetry, which often brushes against the borders of poetic prose.
- As scenes in the fast moving episodes unfold, the music reconciles difference and similarity; it suggests dualism and unexplored complexity.
Synonyms doubleness, duplexity, ambivalence
Origin Late 18th century: from dual, on the pattern of French dualisme. |