DUALISM. As a category within the history and phenomenology of religion, dualism may be defined as a doctrine that posits the existence of two fundamental causal principles underlying the existence (or, as in the case of the Indian notion of maya as...

Dualism in the Philosophy of Mind Mind-body dualism is the doctrine that human persons are not made out of ordinary matter, at least not entirely. Every person has—or, on many versions of the view, simply is identical to—a soul. A soul is...

Theory of the mind as a non-physical thing. According to dualism, although the brain is a physical substance, the mind (or soul) is a non-physical substance, sharing no properties with any physical substance. Minds, on the dualists’ hypothesis,...

A philosophical or religious doctrine which posits two ultimate beings. The universe is perceived as a cosmic struggle between the forces of good and the forces of evil, or *God and the *Devil. Although this doctrine was found among the *gnostics and...

. Any view which claims to see in the universe as a whole or in some area of concern just two fundamental entities or kinds of entity or properties, e.g. the views that a person’s mind and body are irreducibly different entities, or that physical...

In philosophy, any pair of irreducible, mutually heterogeneous principles used to analyze the nature and origins of knowledge (epistemological dualism) or to explain all of reality or some broad aspect of it (metaphysical dualism); also, any theory...

A learning style which is similar to surface processing in that it seeks to acquire facts and, in addition, sees everything in terms of correctness or incorrectness, right or...

A philosophical theory that sees everything in terms of two opposites, eg mental and material, good and evil,...

Dualism denotes a state of two parts. The word's origin is the Latin duo, "two" . The term 'dualism' was originally coined to denote co-eternal binary opposition, a meaning that is preserved in metaphysical and philosophical discourse but has been...