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Dualistic  adj.  Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.
Dualistic system or Dualistic theory (Chem.), an old 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two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and possessed of opposite chemical or electrical affinities; superseded by later developments in chemical bonding theory, especially quantum mechanics.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dualistic" Quotes from Famous Books



... explanation of religious phenomena breaks down hopelessly, while the religious explanation fully covers and explains the facts. If this were true, nothing more remains to be said, and we must accept this dualistic scheme, however repugnant it may be to orthodox scientific ideas. But is it true? Is it a fact that the non-religious explanation breaks down so completely? Hitherto the course of events has been in the contrary direction. It is the religious explanation ...
— Religion & Sex - Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development • Chapman Cohen

... epigrams. Bent the novelist had doubted if originally there had been a Third Person in the Trinity at all. He suggested a reaction from a too-Manichaean dualism at some date after the time of St. John's Gospel. He maintained obstinately that that Gospel was dualistic. ...
— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells

... a thinker, as one who contemplates the universe. He does not create matter, nor force, nor does he rule them. They are eternal and real, and subject to fate. God simply observes. He is absolute reason. The Greek view is thus essentially dualistic. Sin, from the Greek point of view, is merely ignorance, and salvation ...
— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick



Words linked to "Dualistic" :   Manichaean, dualism



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