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Dialist vs Dualist - What's the difference?

dialist | dualist |

As nouns the difference between dialist and dualist

is that dialist is a maker of sundials; a gnomonist while dualist is any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil.

As an adjective dualist is

of or supporting dualism.

dialist

English

Alternative forms

* diallist

Noun

(en noun)
  • A maker of sundials; a gnomonist.
  • (Webster 1913)

    dualist

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or supporting dualism
  • She has a strictly dualist approach to morality.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil
  • The Manicheans were dualists .
  • Any person who believes in or argues for the duality of something
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  • , passage=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. }}

    Derived terms

    * dualistic

    See also

    * (wikipedia "dualist")