dualin (dualin)

[ An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as, spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, ob jective; in, out: upper, under; motion, rest; yea, nay.. The same dualism underlies the nature and condition of man. Emerson, Compensation. 2. In philos., in general, that way of thinking which seeks to explain all sorts of phenomena by the a umption of two radically independent and absolute elements, without any continuous gradation between them: opposed to monism. In particular, the term is applied-(a) To the doctrine that spirit and matter exist as distinct substances, thus being opposed both to idealism and to materialism. Berkeley then is right in triumphing over Realism and Dualism. Right in saying that if he were to accord them ural dualism, the doctrine of a real subject and a real object in cognition accepted unreflectively. Persian dualism, the doctrine of a good and an evil active principle struggling against each other in the government of human affairs and destiny. Realistic dualism, the doctrine that the universe consists of two kinds of real i ties, spirit and matter.