dualism

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du‧a‧lis‧m/ˈdjuːəlɪzəm $ ˈduː-/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE] technical
the idea that there are two opposite parts or principles in everything, for example body and soul, or the state of having two parts or principles

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▪ At best, he is summarising our human tendency to dualism.
▪ It is a long road from dualism to monism.
▪ Surrealism is an escape from dualism.
▪ The second question which an opponent of dualism such as a functionalist must face, concerns the alleged privacy of the mental.
▪ The Soul and the Understanding represent these dualities psychologically, recreating within man the structural dualism of the cosmos.
▪ The transition from dualism to monism is painful.
▪ This way of understanding reality or dualism is illustrated in Figure 2.
▪ With hindsight the confidence with which the demise of dualism was predicted appears to have been premature.