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Dualistic vs Dualist - What's the difference?

dualistic | dualist | Derived terms |

Dualistic is a derived term of dualist.


As adjectives the difference between dualistic and dualist

is that dualistic is of, or relating to dualism while dualist is of or supporting dualism.

As a noun dualist is

any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil.

dualistic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, or relating to dualism
  • 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")