(n.) State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any system which is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction
(n.) A view of man as constituted of two original and independent elements, as matter and spirit.
(n.) A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, one good and the other evil.
(n.) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decree of God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the elect and the reprobate.
(n.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere acts independently of the other.
Example Sentences:
(1) In classical psychosomatics dualism in medicine is kept alive by considering only so-called "psychosomatic diseases".
(2) Modern physics has put in question the validity of its own metaphysical basis, namely the belief in Natural Law, and modern biology has been unable to come to terms with the Cartesian dualism of body and soul.
(3) The authors report a case in which a social policy formulation based on such diagnostic dualism resulted in the denial of health-related facility placement to a patient.
(4) This dualism also led to "enlightenment" and to many later social and philosophical developments.
(5) They deal with Purkinje cells from a special aspect with the aim to demonstrate the dualism through various staining methods.
(6) The work is the first attempt to study nuclear dualism of ciliates with ultraviolet microbeam (UV-beam), which was not applied earlier for these purposes.
(7) He refused to place human experience outside nature, or admit dualism.
(8) Cartesian dualism has become untenable in view of recent neuropsychology but it still obstructs our management of functional patients.
(9) When studying lipolysis no signs of competitive dualism could be observed in the interaction between MO and DYA.
(10) This dualism of enzyme activity favours the conversion of testosterone to DHT in the stroma while androgens of adrenal origin are metabolized mainly in BPH epithelium.
(11) In reconstructing the gastrointestinal tract the dualism of residual acid and postresectional reflux must be taken into account.
(12) The first dualism is love vs. hunger; the drives are either sexual or autoconservative.
(13) Already at the beginning of this century a dualism of neural and endocrine regulation of the gastrointestinal tract was apparent.
(14) 2 This dualism in the action of atropine is explained by an action on different muscarinic receptor sub-types, i.e.
(15) We do not believe that distinctions are representation of dualism: according to the model proposed by the Second Cybernetics, the distinctions are considered as different sides, that is, an overlap of levels in which one term derives from the other.
(16) The paper presented here is a contribution to the debate on the methodological dualism of hermeneutical and nomothetical procedures in psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic research.
(17) The moral-philosophical counterpart to the antagonism: positivism versus hermeneutics is found in the dualism: determinism versus indeterminism.
(18) The simulated evolution exhibits a strong dualism: at the same level of reproductive errors, sexual reproduction provides significantly better local adaptation and asexual reproduction provides significantly better adaptive dynamics.
(19) This view of the subject resembles that implied by ancient theories of goodness, and in later sections of the paper it is shown how Aristotle points us towards a coherent theory of human nature as psycho-physical, which overcomes the inadequacies of dualism and physicalist reductionism.
(20) When the academy started in the 1850s, there was always a kind of dualism at work.
Dualistic
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.
Example Sentences:
(1) - These results confirm the dualistic effect of muscular work.
(2) This essay eschews reductionist, dualist, and identity-theory attempts to resolve this problem, and offers an ontology--"monistic dual-aspect interactionism"--for the biopsychosocial model.
(3) It is argued that Bunge's dialectic is developed from a dualistic universe and is, therefore, incompatible with Rogers's views on the unitary nature of phenomena.
(4) This suggests that transcriptional events are not necessary for the insulin-mediated increase in TAT activity, and also suggests a dualistic mechanism for the cAMP-induced increase in TAT activity.
(5) Our knowledge of the effects in biological systems of various stimuli proves to be dualistic in a complementary (although not mutually exclusive) way, which bears resemblance to the knowledge of phenomena in quantum physics.
(6) Considering the role of HLA as a restriction element in cellular interactions during the immune response, these findings suggest that HLA compatibility may have a dualistic effect on liver transplant outcome.
(7) Some would attribute the problem, at least in part, to the enduring heritage of Descartes, who imprinted dualistic notions of a separation of mind and body upon medical education and practice.
(8) If asymmetric compounds elicit effects suggesting a dualistic action at the calcium channel, then the stereoisomers should be prepared.
(9) Francis Bacon's view of man is dualistic but, although he takes note of mental faculties, he makes the relation between mind and body, rather than the substance of mind, the basis for enquiry into mental processes and, more particularly, for the medically relevant study of mind.
(10) More than 50% of PMs are not satisfied with the dualistic management that exists mainly in the General Sick Fund.
(11) In conclusion, thyroid hormone has dualistic effects on the secretory proteins synthesized by a human hepatoblastoma cell line: physiological concentrations of thyroid hormones decrease the synthesis of TBG, but increase the synthesis of AGP.
(12) It is demonstrated that oestrogen has a dualistic effect on the immune system by suppressing antigen-specific T-cell dependent immune reactions while enhancing B-cell activities.
(13) A dualistic function for the natriuretic ATP.inhibiting factor is formulated on the basis of a phenomenon like compensatory renal adaption of residual nephrons: 1.
(14) The results obtained characterize DHE as a noncompetitive dualist at vascular 5-HT receptors.
(15) The dualistic "limbs" of biological knowledge are the action of stimuli and the response of the exposed, biological system.
(16) BC-105 was nearly equipotent in antagonizing responses to 5-HT, E and DHE suggesting that both ergot alkaloids act as noncompetitive dualists at the 5-HT receptor.
(17) These errors include the researcher's: erotophobia, dualistic thinking, use of "self-labels," and most important, misuse of the Kinsey Scale as a basic definitional assumption.
(18) The data indicated that (a) reliance on gender labels as judgment cues remains stable developmentally, (b) use of individuating information (particularly masculine individuating information) increases with age, and (c) the relationship between masculinity and femininity becomes increasingly negative with age, suggesting that gender may initially be viewed in dualistic terms but later as a unidimensional construct.
(19) According to the concentrations used, all three substances showed an apparent dualist mechanism of action on both preparations when histamine (dihydrochloride) was used as the agonist.
(20) This is substantiated both philosophically and by taking issue with dualist concepts as well as those which absolutize the psychological aspect.