Duality vs Dualist - What's the difference?
duality | dualist |
A classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.
(projective geometry) The interchangeability of points and planes.
(mathematics, physics) The mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system.
Of or supporting dualism
Any person who supports dualism, the belief in absolute good and absolute evil
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. }}
As nouns the difference between duality and dualist
is that duality is a classification into two subclasses or opposed parts 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.duality
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Noun
(dualities)Synonyms
* dichotomyDerived terms
* wave-particle dualitydualist
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Adjective
(-)- She has a strictly dualist approach to morality.
Noun
(en noun)- The Manicheans were dualists .