dualist
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1. dualist - Noun
2. dualist - Adjective
Meaning
One who believes in dualism; a ditheist.
One who administers two offices.
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A dualist he certainly was, but he was not a Gnostic".
After the so-called Ausgleich of February 1867, the Austrian Empire was reformed into a dualist Austria-Hungary and a slow yet steady process of liberalisation of Austrian rule in Galicia started.
Idealism thus rejects physicalist and dualist theories that fail to ascribe priority to the mind.
Karl R. Popper, The Poverty of Historicism, p. 97 Free will Popper and John Eccles speculated on the problem of free will for many years generally agreeing on an interactionist dualist theory of mind.
The differences between dualist and monist views are reconciled by the teaching that these opposing viewpoints are caused by differences in the observers themselves, not in that which is observed.
Modern era The French cleric Pierre Gassendi (1592–1665) represented the materialist tradition in opposition to the attempts of René Descartes (1596–1650) to provide the natural sciences with dualist foundations.