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English
Etymology
From dual + -ist.
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.
Derived terms
Translations
person supporting dualism
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Danish
Noun
dualist c (singular definite dualisten, plural indefinite dualister)
- dualist
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French dualiste.
Adjective
dualist m or n (feminine singular dualistă, masculine plural dualiști, feminine and neuter plural dualiste)
- dualistic
Declension