Dualism

[Sarah]

State of being dual or twofold; a twofold division; any systemwhich is founded on a double principle, or a twofold distinction; as:(a) (Philos.) A view of man as constituted of two original andindependent elements, as matter and spirit. (Theol.)(b) A system which accepts two gods, or two original principles, onegood and the other evil.(c) The doctrine that all mankind are divided by the arbitrary decreeof God, and in his eternal foreknowledge, into two classes, the electand the reprobate.(d) (Physiol.) The theory that each cerebral hemisphere actsindependently of the other.An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half,and suggests another thing to make it whole. Emerson.

[Sarah]

(1) The theory that blood cells have two origins, from the lymphatic system and from the bone marrow.
(2) The view in psychology that the mind and body function separately, without interchange.
(3) The belief in the existence of two entities (as one good and one evil); [ditheism]; [bitheism]

[Sarah]

A philosophy adopted by people who are confused by the mind. Dualism asserts that there is more than what is physical.