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n. - An adherent of a theory that divides the world or a given realm of phenomena or concepts into two mutually irreducible elements or classes of elements

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  • Once again, the plot makes sense only to a dualist.
  • "I didn't take you for a dualist," Manfred says ruefully.
  • Pythagoras may already have been a dualist, in two senses.
  • Nobody was as consciously and voluntarily a dualist as Mani.
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  • The young "duelist" (one who takes part in a duel) did not care that his older opponent was a famous "dualist" (a view that reduces life or ideas to two basic concepts) philosopher.
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