How to Use dualism in a Sentence

dualism

noun
  • This tendency to view the mind as distinct from the body is called dualism.
    — Iris Berent, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2021
  • We are misled by an implicit mind-brain dualism that leads us astray.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2014
  • 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
  • That dualism is at the core of Lucius – different things making a new, better whole.
    — Marissa R Moss, SPIN, 13 Apr. 2022
  • No psionic fields, no morphic resonances, no élan vital, no dualism.
    — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • There is more to our infatuation with the brain than just dualism, however.
    — 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
  • His philosophy was one of dualism, of a division between mind and matter.
    — Andrea Wulf, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Mind-body dualism is one of philosophy's oldest questions, boosted this time by science.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Oct. 2020
  • This dualism evokes a robust tradition of scholarship on the aesthetics of the Web.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For centuries scientists were puzzled by an apparent dualism in nature, between matter and light.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Prior to the emergence of quantum mechanics, fundamental physics was marked by a peculiar dualism.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
  • When personal and professional growth is viewed with this lens, our endeavors cease to be measured by the restrictive system of dualism—failure or success.
    — Neshica Bheem, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Offsetting nearly a century of cultural dualism is not going to happen in one generation.
    — David L. Bahnsen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Death stalks Enzo and this movie, which energetically gathers momentum even as Mann busily juggles the story’s numerous parts and warring dualisms.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Rene Descartes formalized the intuitions about the souls in a rigorous modern sense with his dualism (though obvious dualistic philosophies predate Descartes).
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2013
  • There is dualism, or symmetry, all over Shawshank, but this is just another way of saying the film is beautifully balanced, respectful of classic storytelling conventions.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Clarke first outlines the dualism of Rene Descartes, who famously believed in an immaterial human soul separate from the brain, and responsible for rational thought.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2013

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