(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.
View
Definition:
(n.) The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.
(n.) Mental survey; intellectual perception or examination; as, a just view of the arguments or facts in a case.
(n.) Power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect.
(n.) That which is seen or beheld; sight presented to the natural or intellectual eye; scene; prospect; as, the view from a window.
(n.) The pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, /ither drawn or painted; as, a fine view of Lake George.
(n.) Mode of looking at anything; manner of apprehension; conception; opinion; judgment; as, to state one's views of the policy which ought to be pursued.
(n.) That which is looked towards, or kept in sight, as object, aim, intention, purpose, design; as, he did it with a view of escaping.
(n.) Appearance; show; aspect.
(v. t.) To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to inspect; to explore.
(v. t.) To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects.
Example Sentences:
(1) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
(2) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
(3) Errors in the initial direction of response were fewer in binocular viewing in comparison with monocular viewing.
(4) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
(5) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(6) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
(7) She knows you can’t force the opposition to submit to your point of view.
(8) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(9) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
(10) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
(11) The shock resulting from acute canine babesiosis is best viewed as anemic shock.
(12) Further analysis of the role of sex steroid hormones is required in view of the sex variations reported.
(13) These unusual fractures are not easily detected on the routine three-view "hand-series."
(14) 83 well documented cases of amoebic hepatic abscess, treated in the Philippines between 1967 and 1975, are presented with a view to showing the results of 3 different methods of management and comparing the diagnostic accuracy and overall mortality in 2 separate groups.
(15) In this article it is outlined the medical biopsychosocial approach with particular emphasis on the family viewed as the primary health care agency.
(16) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
(17) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(18) The presence of an inverse correlation between certain tryptophan metabolites, shown previously to be bladder carcinogens, and the N-nitrosamine content, especially after loading, was interpreted in view of the possible conversion of some tryptophan metabolites into N-nitrosamines either under endovesical conditions or during the execution of the colorimetric determination of these compounds.
(19) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
(20) My father has never met him but has a different view.