Crossword-Solution: DUALISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dualism | n. | State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction |
| Dualism | n. | A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit. |
| Dualism | n. | A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil. |
| Dualism | n. | 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 | n. | The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “DUALISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BEING dual | 1 answer |
| Belief in body and soul | 1 answer |
| DOCTRINE that mind and matter exist as distinct entities (philos.) | 1 answer |
| Mind-body, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Principal of Chinese philosophy | 1 answer |
| Principle of Chinese philosophy | 1 answer |
| Principle of yin and yang, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Two part-y state? | 1 answer |
| Two-part state | 1 answer |
| state of having two distinct parts | 1 answer |
| theory of dual | 1 answer |
| Twofold nature | 2 answers |
| polarity | 2 answers |
| Gnosticism | 3 answers |
| duality | 11 answers |
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Sentences with DUALISM (5)
Thus began the dualism of love--two souls rolling through space and never at rest until they join together to complete the universe.
But he lit up the whole of that nature by his marvellous genius for expression, and grave personages have been occupied ever since in discussing the dualism of his character, and professing to find some dark mystery in the existence of this, that, or the other trait—a love of pleasure, a hatred of shams, a deep sense of religion.
This strange dualism he had developed was after all very unstable, and, as he sat in his study and meditated, he saw that it could not endure.
The Indian Gymnosophists, or Brahmins, had little or no effect on Greek philosophy, except in the case of Pyrrho: the Persian Dualism still less.
Thus the language of philosophy which speaks of first and second causes is crossed by another sort of phraseology: ‘God made the world because he was good, and the demons ministered to him.’ The Timaeus is cast in a more theological and less philosophical mould than the other dialogues, but the same general spirit is apparent; there is the same dualism or opposition between the ideal and actual—the soul is prior to the body, the intelligible and unseen to the visible and corporeal.
Quotes with DUALISM (3)
Abide not with dualism, Carefully avoid pursuing it; As soon as you have right and wrong, Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost. (172)
For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, "The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat!
He perceived too in these still hours how little he had understood her hitherto. He had been blinded, — obsessed. He had been seeing her and himself and the whole world far too much as a display of the eternal dualism of sex, the incessant pursuit. Now with his sexual imaginings newly humbled and hopeless, with a realization of her own tremendous minimization of that fundamental of romance, he began to see all that there was in her personality and their possible relations out…
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Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (2011–2023).