dualism

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Once we get beyond the dualism that The Captain is mired in, we can start experiencing real empathy and real humanity.

From Salon • May 27, 2024

Substance dualism — the idea that brain and mind are composed of two distinct “substances” — receives short shrift.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023

Mr. Dugin gave a lecture on the “metaphysical dualism of historical thinking,” according to the festival’s website.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2022

With the doctrine of forms, Plato may be said to combine the metaphysics of Parmenides with that of Heraclitus into a metaphysical dualism.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

As with the yin and yang of the Far East and Zoroaster’s dualism of good and evil in the Near East, creation and destruction were intermingled in Hinduism.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife