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

A mystical indigenous religion that venerated nature, Daoism borrowed from various ideological systems, such as the dualism of yin-yang with its emphasis on the complementary poles of light and dark cosmological forces.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Substance dualism — the idea that brain and mind are composed of two distinct “substances” — receives short shrift.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023

Alena, did Hailee’s previous roles give you confidence that she’d nail the tricky dualism of “Dickinson”?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2021

In fact the whole tendency to dualism that pervades human thinking may be found to be lessened, or changed, on Winter.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin