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

Mollie is telling Ernest that she sees him as a good guy, even if the movie has already violently upended the familiar dualism of the white hat vs. black.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2024

Lightman’s second mistaken assumption is that substance dualism is essential to religious ways of understanding personhood.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023

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