How to Use dualism in a Sentence
dualism
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Another dualism: The film is told from both Andy’s point of view and Red’s.
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
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This tendency to view the mind as distinct from the body is called dualism.
—Iris Berent, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2021
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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
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That dualism is at the core of Lucius – different things making a new, better whole.
—Marissa R Moss, SPIN, 13 Apr. 2022
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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
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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
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This dualism evokes a robust tradition of scholarship on the aesthetics of the Web.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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There is more to our infatuation with the brain than just dualism, however.
—Iris Berent, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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His philosophy was one of dualism, of a division between mind and matter.
—Andrea Wulf, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Mind-body dualism is one of philosophy's oldest questions, boosted this time by science.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2020
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No psionic fields, no morphic resonances, no élan vital, no dualism.
—New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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Schaefer had to confront an emotional dualism Tuesday night.
—Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
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Prior to the emergence of quantum mechanics, fundamental physics was marked by a peculiar dualism.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
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For centuries scientists were puzzled by an apparent dualism in nature, between matter and light.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2021
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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
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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
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This reference to the Andean concept of dualism had, for him, become a shorthand explanation for exactly this conundrum.
—Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
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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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