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dualists

dualists is the plural of dualist.

Meaning of dualist

Noun

dualist (plural dualists)

  1. Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil.
    • The Manicheans were dualists.
  2. Any person who believes in or argues for the duality of something.
    • 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.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

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Questions about dualists

What is dualists the plural of?
Dualists is the plural of dualist.

Words near dualists in the dictionary

  1. dualist
  2. dualistic
  3. dualistic development
  4. dualistical
  5. dualistically
  6. dualists
  7. dualities
  8. duality
  9. dualizability
  10. dualizable
  11. dualization

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