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Dualistic   Listen
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Dualistic  adj.  Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.
Dualistic system or Dualistic theory (Chem.), an old theory, originated by Lavoisier and developed by Berzelius, that all definite compounds are binary in their nature, and consist of two distinct constituents, themselves simple or complex, and possessed of opposite chemical or electrical affinities; superseded by later developments in chemical bonding theory, especially quantum mechanics.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dualistic" Quotes from Famous Books



... form of a school, and after three generations more was to triumph over all other schools. The several elements of the Neoplatonic philosophy, as they were already foreshadowed in Philo, are clearly seen in the second century, viz., the dualistic opposition of the divine and the earthly, the abstract conception of God, the assertion of the unknowableness of God, scepticism with regard to sensuous experience, and distrust with regard to the powers of the understanding, with a ...
— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack



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