dualist

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adjective

Of or supporting dualism.

“The Manicheans were dualists.”

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Meanings

adjectivedualist (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or supporting dualism.

    She has a strictly dualist approach to morality.

noundualist (plural dualists)

plural dualists

  1. Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil.

    The Manicheans were dualists.

  2. Any person who believes in or argues for the duality of something.

    Regarding the second option, suppose that a substance dualist who is also a theist accounts for the conceptual possibility of a mental difference by claiming that God decided to put a soul in one individual but not the other.

    2007 February 7, Jeff Wisdom, “Base property exemplification and mixed worlds: remarks on the Shafer-Landau/Mabrito exchange”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 138, number 3, →DOI

Origin

From dual + -ist.

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Translations

Arabic ثَنَوِيّ
  • ثَنَوِيّ (ṯanawiyy)person supporting dualism
Catalan dualista
  • dualistaperson supporting dualism
Czech dualista
  • dualistaperson supporting dualism
Greek δυϊστής
  • δυϊστής (dyïstís)person supporting dualism
Polish dualista, dualistka
  • dualistaperson supporting dualism
  • dualistkaperson supporting dualism

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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