(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.
Two
Definition:
(n.) One and one; twice one.
(n.) The sum of one and one; the number next greater than one, and next less than three; two units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing two units, as 2, II., or ii.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(2) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(3) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(4) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
(5) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(6) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(7) Clonal abnormalities involving chromosomes 3 and 21 were noted in two patients.
(8) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
(9) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(10) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(11) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(12) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
(13) Cyclic AMP stimulated phosphorylation by [gamma-32P]ATP of two proteins of apparent Mr = 20,000 and 7,000 that were concentrated in sarcoplasmic reticulum, but the stimulation was markedly dependent on the presence of added soluble cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.
(14) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
(15) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(16) At pH 7.0, reduction is complete after 6 to 10 h. These results together with an earlier study concerning the positions of the two most readily reduced bonds (Cornell J.S., and Pierce, J.G.
(17) Gel filtration of the 40,000 rpm supernatant fraction of a homogenate of rat cerebral cortex on a Sepharose 6B column yielded two fractions: fraction II with the "Ca(2+) plus Mg(2+)-dependent" phosphodiesterase activity and fraction III containing its modulator.
(18) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(19) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(20) The findings suggest that these two syndromes are associated with dysfunction at two different sites within the frontal lobes.