Sentence examples for dualistic conception from inspiring English sources

This dualistic conception, in many religions, has also involved the idea of rebirth or reincarnation.

The arrangement of this table reflects a dualistic conception, which was apparently not original with the school, however, or accepted by all of its members.

In turn, a dualistic conception of human nature, which regards the soul as intrinsically nonmaterial and immortal, envisages postmortem life in terms of the disembodied existence of the soul.

In fact, all the panspermia versions converged on the same philosophical ground: the dualistic conception that matter and life are two different categories and it is impossible to transform one into the other (Fry 2000, pp. 59 60).

Why embodied approaches to cognition are better able to address the performative dimensions of art than the dualistic conceptions fundamental to theories of digital computing.

Dualistic conceptions of creation come to the fore in the theme of earth-diver myths, in which there is an antagonism between the co-creators of the universe.

"With dualistic conceptions of good and evil and hierarchical notions of values and worth," Mr. Sanders wrote in an essay for the Web site Religion Dispatches, "it becomes easy to know who it is O.K. to hate or bully, or, seemingly more benignly, to ignore.

Now, perhaps such dualistic conceptions of mind and nature have lost some credibility in the present philosophical and scientific climates (however, are they really any less credible than 'overdetermining' dualism, which on this view would be Davidson's central opponent?).

In Christianity, dualistic concepts appeared principally in its gnostic developments.

He expressed divine conception through the dualistic symbolism of Janus, the Roman god with two faces.

An uncompromising dualist, he traced back dualistic thought even to some of the Upanishads.