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What does dualism mean?

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Noun
  1. Duality; the condition of being double.
  2. (philosophy) 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.
  3. (theology) 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.
  4. (chemistry) The theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and having opposite chemical or electrical affinities.
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Essentially, this takes the form of an oppositional dualism that frequently manifests itself in demonstrably puerile ways.
A detailed discussion of monism and dualism is outwith the scope of this text.
However, the last stanza of this poem reluctantly acknowledges the need for-the inevitability of dualism.
The polarity between male and female is, following Philo's procedure, often allegorized as an anthropological dualism or dichotomy.
He thus destroyed the contradictory and confusing dualism in Cartesianism and established mechanical empiricism.
The crisis over identity was profound, for Gnostic dualism had a number of corollaries.

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