How to Use dualism in a Sentence

dualism

noun

• Another dualism: The film is told from both Andy’s point of view and Red’s.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
• This tendency to view the mind as distinct from the body is called dualism.
  — Iris Berent, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2021
• Gray thinks that this odd pattern stems from the old notion of mind-body dualism, the philosophy which states that the mind and body are separate things.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2011
• That dualism is at the core of Lucius – different things making a new, better whole.
  — Marissa R Moss, SPIN, 13 Apr. 2022
• That's one of those inconvenient truths that purists who subscribe to the human/nature dualism don't like to hear.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2010
• The philosopher Descartes first put forth this concept known as mind-body dualism—the idea that the workings of the brain are divorced from the mechanisms of the body—during the Enlightenment.
  — Donna Jackson Nakazawa, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
• This dualism evokes a robust tradition of scholarship on the aesthetics of the Web.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2021
• Simplifying the number of parties and to see and to present the issue as dual, as a radical dualism, between one group and the other one.
  — Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2016
• At the heart of this dualism was the contrast of light and substance, a theme that has fascinated not only scientists but artists and mystics for many centuries.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
• The dualism of Francis Bacon and Descartes held reason to be distinct from and superior to matter.
  — Mary L. Trump, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• There is more to our infatuation with the brain than just dualism, however.
  — Iris Berent, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2021
• The next morning, however, Shainberg briefly achieved transcendence from the questions that usually plagued him—questions to do with desire, and mind-body dualism, and why his brain wouldn’t shut up.
  — Christopher Tayler, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• Our culture’s long-standing dualism endures in the popular notion that the mind is a software program running on the hardware of our physical forms.
  — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 25 Apr. 2022
• But the idea that mind and body responses are separate (an ancient philosophical idea called mind-body dualism) is long debunked.
  — Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• His philosophy was one of dualism, of a division between mind and matter.
  — Andrea Wulf, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2022
• The proposition that the world is a sham is not new; it’s been cropping up for thousands of years across different cultures, from China to ancient Greece, advocated by thinkers like Descartes with his mind-body dualism.
  — Caleb A. Scharf, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2020
• On the one hand, an intolerant dualism—dividing the world into sinners and the faithful—would threaten democratic norms.
  — Amy Erica Smith, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
• This dualism leads us to be vulnernable to 'neuro'-rhetoric: ways of talking that make use of neuroscience terminology even when this isn't necessary.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2016
• Mind-body dualism is one of philosophy's oldest questions, boosted this time by science.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2020
• No psionic fields, no morphic resonances, no élan vital, no dualism.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• The belief that online and offline spaces are separate realms has even earned its own derogatory name, digital dualism.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2020
• The idea of a scientific lampshade on mind-body dualism certainly isn’t new, but McFadden’s research, published in the journal Neuroscience of Consciousness, is the latest to try to marry the fields.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2020
• In the 1640s, French philosopher René Descartes introduced what came to be known as Cartesian dualism, or the idea that although materially connected, the mind and body are separate entities.
  — Outside Online, 7 Sep. 2021
• Schaefer had to confront an emotional dualism Tuesday night.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
• Prior to the emergence of quantum mechanics, fundamental physics was marked by a peculiar dualism.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
• For centuries scientists were puzzled by an apparent dualism in nature, between matter and light.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2021
• Slow is not the opposite of fast—there is no dualism—but a different approach in which designers, buyers, retailers, and consumers are more aware of the impacts of products on workers, communities, and ecosystems.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2019
• In answering the question, Baggini explored the history of mind-body dualism: the idea, inherited from Plato and Descartes and Mill and many others, that the human body can be meaningfully distinguished from the human mind.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2020
• This reference to the Andean concept of dualism had, for him, become a shorthand explanation for exactly this conundrum.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
• Unfortunately, the book’s own divisions between body versus brain, and nature versus nurture, reinforce the very dualisms that Jasanoff indicts.
  — Lisa Feldman Barrett, New York Times, 25 June 2018

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