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Dualist
Du′al-ist
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
dualiste
.] 1.
One who believes in dualism; a ditheist.
2.
One who administers two offices.
Fuller.
Definition 2024
dualist
dualist
English
Adjective
dualist (not comparable)
- Of or supporting dualism.
- She has a strictly dualist approach to morality.
Noun
dualist (plural dualists)
- Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil.
- The Manicheans were dualists.
- Any person who believes in or argues for the duality of something.
- 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: :
- 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.
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Danish
Noun
dualist c (singular definite dualisten, plural indefinite dualister)
Declension
Inflection of dualist
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | dualist | dualisten | dualister | dualisterne |
genitive | dualists | dualistens | dualisters | dualisternes |
Related terms
- dualisme
- dualistisk
References
- “dualist” in Den Danske Ordbog