dualism

[ UK /djˈuːəlˌɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ˈduəˌɫɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
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How To Use dualism In A Sentence

  • The danger in Iraq is repeating the biggest mistake - yielding to gradualism.
  • Andrews assumes that the lyric poet's freedom to dissent is only the freedom to say ‘yes’ to the American ideology - individualism.
  • Buddhism recognizes neither the mind/body dualism that characterizes much of Western philosophy, nor the concept of an essential self, such as the Hindu atman.
  • It thus promises to take us beyond the Nature-Society dualism organising both previous Marxian work on nature and versions of bourgeois technocentrism and radical ecocentrism.
  • She won't be hyped, marketed, trendified, commodified, put in a box - and even though she probably loathes sound-bites as well, she has a way with words when describing her fierce individualism.
  • From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state. Obama's Culture War
  • Stanley's complaint is about the inadequacy of phyletic gradualism to account for the known facts of paleontology and the superiority of punctuated equilibria as an explanation for those facts.
  • These values include individualism, liberty, democracy and the rule of law.
  • Authoritative parents respect children's individualism while insisting they meet reasonable requirements.
  • Individualism has such essential and non-essential characteristics as plebeianism, freedom, democracy and aggression.
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