dualist

adj, noun — 3 senses

dualist

adj

Etymology From dual + -ist.

1

Of or supporting dualism.

She has a strictly dualist approach to morality.

dualist

noun

Etymology From dual + -ist.

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:

Derived terms: antidualist, dualistic, nondualist
Related terms: dualism

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