dualistic

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Ancient Greek philosophers were both monists and dualists.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

His Xerénte informants were dualists whose world consisted of paired oppositions: the sun and moon, day and night, woman and man, good and evil.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2022

The dualists believe that science can uncover only half of the picture: it can’t explain what Nabokov called “the marvel of consciousness—that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2017

Hustvedt rejects the sterile rationalism of the dualists.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2017

“We are dualists too. Duality is an essential, isn’t it? So long as there is myself and the other.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin