Etymology

bundle dualism

Today it means: The theory that the mind does not exist as a sole entity, being composed of many immaterial parts that are entirely independent from the material world. Full definition →

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From bundle + dualism, from Hume's internal observation of the mind as “a bundle of perceptions.”

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