dualism(noun)

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

dualism(Noun)

Duality; the condition of being double.

dualism(Noun)

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.

dualism(Noun)

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.

Dualism(noun)

state of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction

Dualism(noun)

a view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit

Dualism(noun)

a system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil

Dualism(noun)

the doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate

Dualism(noun)

the theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other

Dualism

or Manichæism, the doctrine that there are two opposite and independently existing principles which go to constitute every concrete thing throughout the universe, such as a principle of good and a principle of evil, light and darkness, life and death, spirit and matter, ideal and real, yea and nay, God and Devil, Christ and Antichrist, Ormuzd and Ahriman.