Monist vs Dualist - What's the difference?
monist | dualist |
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 monist and dualist
is that monist is an advocate of monism 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.dualist
English
Adjective
(-)- She has a strictly dualist approach to morality.
Noun
(en noun)- The Manicheans were dualists .