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Dualism is a family of views that divide a domain or phenomenon into two separate principles or kinds. More specifically, it may refer to:
- Cosmological dualism, the theological or spiritual view that there are only two fundamental concepts, such as "good" and "evil", and that these two concepts are in every way opposed to one another
- Dualism (Indian philosophy), the belief held by certain schools of Indian philosophy that reality is fundamentally composed of two parts
- Mind–body dualism, or substance dualism, a philosophical view which holds that mental phenomena are, at least in certain respects, not physical phenomena, or that the mind and the body are distinct and separable from one another
- Property dualism, a view in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics which holds that, although the world is composed of just one kind of substance—the physical kind—there exist two distinct kinds of properties: physical properties and mental properties
- Epistemological dualism, the epistemological question of whether the world we see around us is the real world itself or merely an internal perceptual copy of that world generated by neural processes in our brain
Dualism may also refer to:
- Dualism (cybernetics), idea by Norbert Weiner that there exists a fundamental division between information and matter or energy
- Dualism in medieval politics, opposition to hierocracy (medieval)
- Ethical dualism, the view that good and evil are antagonistic forces that govern the world and are locked in a perpetual conflict
- Monism and dualism in international law, a principle in contending that international and domestic law are distinct systems of law, and that international law only applies to the extent that it does not conflict with domestic law
- Soul dualism, the belief that a person has two (or more) kinds of souls
