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Dualist

Dualist \Du"al*ist\, n. [Cf. F. dualiste.]

  1. One who believes in dualism; a ditheist.

  2. One who administers two offices. -- Fuller.

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dualist

a. Of or supporting dualism n. 1 Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil 2 Any person who believes in or argues for the duality of something

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dualist

n. an adherent of dualism

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Dualist (album)

Dualist is the second studio album by the Filipino indie rock band Taken by Cars, released in 2011 by Party Bear Records.

Usage examples of "dualist".

Lastly it is easiest of all perhaps, to say as the dualists do, that life is like a chess-board in which the two are equal, and can as truly be said to consist of white squares on a black board or of black squares on a white board.

Gate were little enclaves of Druses, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Confucianists, Taoists, Shintoists, Hindus, Pantheists, Gnostics, Orphics, Metempsychosans, Dualists, Unitarians.

European Catharism lie in Bogomilism, a dualist faith that flourished in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Dalmatia from the tenth century onwards.

The point about these possibilities is that they seem to be wide open, on the Cartesian dualist account of mind and body.

These traces of an unnatural asceticism come from the dualist ideas of the Catharists, and not from the inspired poet who sang nature and her fecundity, who made nests for doves, inviting them to multiply under the watch of God, and who imposed manual labor on his friars as a sacred duty.

Gate were little enclaves of Druses, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Confucianists, Taoists, Shintoists, Hindus, Pantheists, Gnostics, Orphics, Metempsychosans, Dualists, Unitarians.

Today the Mandaean religion is, frankly, a hopelessly confused hotchpotch: various fragments of Old Testament Judaism, heretical Gnostic forms of Christianity and Iranian dualist beliefs are all mixed into their cosmology and theology.

From the perspective of this belief system, the burden of nonequivalence between the two rests with dualists, for there is no doubt at all that physical matter exists, while the notion of mental phenomena is seen as being nothing more than a tenuous hypothesis.

The question of the causal efficacy of the mind has plagued scientific materialism since the time of Descartes, and neither dualists nor physicalists have provided a compelling solution to this problem.

Since physicalists have been no more successful at explaining the causal interaction between the mind and body than the dualists, the only serious objection to considering the causal efficacy of a nonphysical mind in the physical world is the conservation principle.

In the crowded, twisting streets behind the Thieves' Gate were little enclaves of Druses, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Confucianists, Taoists, Shintoists, Hindus, Pantheists, Gnostics, Orphics, Metempsychosans, Dualists, Unitarians.

And I’m telling you about them because, when the dualist heretics spread through Italy and Provence, they are called—to indicate that they’re like the Paulicians—Popelicans, Publicans, Populicans, who gallice etiam dicuntur ab aliquis popelicant!

But for other fathers of the church, the Barbelites were latter-day Gnostics, therefore dualists, who worshiped the Great Mother Barbelo, and their initiates in turn called the Borborites Hylics, or Children of Matter, as distinct from the Psychics, who were already a step up, and the Pneumatics, who were the truly elect, the Rotary Club of the whole business.