dualism

dualismi duality Duality; the condition of being double.
puhekieltä The view that the world consists of, or is explicable in terms of, two fundamental principles, such as mind and matter or good and evil.
puhekieltä The belief that the world is ruled by a pair of antagonistic forces, such as good and evil; the belief that man has two basic natures, the physical and the spiritual.
puhekieltä The theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and having opposite chemical or electrical affinities.