Dualist (Noun)
Meaning
An adherent of dualism.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- She considered herself a dualist, believing that the mind and body were separate entities that interacted but remained distinct.
- As a dualist, he argued that individuals had free will and were therefore morally responsible for their actions.
- The philosopher was a dualist who saw the universe as fundamentally composed of two opposing substances, mind and matter.
- The ancient Greek philosopher Plato was a dualist who believed in the concept of the immortality of the soul.
- Many critics accused the novelist of being a dualist for portraying good and evil as absolute and mutually exclusive opposites.