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A classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.

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(projective geometry) The interchangeability of points and planes.

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The mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system.

Subject-object, knowledge, or, more widely, self-consciousness with its implicates - this unity in duality is the ultimate aspect which reality presents.

Or again, within the latter in his admission of a duality of thought and " the given " in knowledge, which within knowledge was apparently irreducible, concurrently with hints as to the possibility, upon a wider view, of the sublation of their disparateness at least hypothetically and speculatively.

The retention of the old duality of dignities was the one reminiscence of the original separation.

Cybele was usually worshipped in connexion with Attis, as Aphrodite with Adonis, the two being a duality interpreted by the philosophers as symbolic of Mother Earth and her vegetation.

In the Trinity the problem is to combine independence and unity; in Christology, to combine duality of nature 2 with the unity of the person.

The incessant change which experience brings before us, taken in conjunction with the thought of unity in productive force of nature, leads to the all-important conception of the duality, the polar opposition through which nature expresses itself in its varied products.

The concept of the yin yang is based in the duality of all things.

Only when we gain self-knowledge are we led from this duality into unity.

We are here concerned with the method less in itself than as leading to the general notion of duality.

Let me reiterate what I think duality within my consciousness would be.

The strength of dualism has been its organizational duality, the strength of materialism its rejection of ontological dualism.

Skolimowski instead posits the duality of body and thought manifested through differing forms.

In this he went beyond Cyril and the Alexandrine school generally, who, although they expressed the unity of the two natures in Christ so as almost to nullify their duality, yet took care verbally to guard themselves against the accusation of in any way circumscribing or modifying his real and true humanity.

Hefele himself, one of the most learned and acute of Cyril's partisans, is compelled to admit that Nestorius accurately held the duality of the two natures and the integrity of each, was equally explicitly opposed to Arianism and Apollinarianism, and was perfectly correct in his assertion that the Godhead can neither be born nor suffer; all that he can allege against him is that "the fear of the communicatio idiomatum pursued him like a spectre."

For this reason, language can no more transcend duality than paintings or photographs upon a flat surface can go beyond two dimensions.

Over one-hundred and seventy tab versions are available here, with the most popular being Before I Forget, Duality, Wait and Bleed, Vermillion, Left Behind and Purity.

With songs like Born to Be Wild and Magic Carpet Ride, Steppenwolf continually explored this duality of human kind in a way that was thoughtful yet still fun and full of spirit.

The pairing of powerful dragons with the significance of the yin yang creates a symbol that reflects the duality of all the energies of the universe.

The complex philosophies of the yin yang concepts may change based on Daoism, Buddhism or the western culture, but the basic concepts of polarity, duality, infinity and balance of yin yang theory remains the same throughout belief systems.

This kind of duality gives you a double dose of luck and symbolism.

In the Chinese belief system, yin yang represents the duality of everything in the universe.

Ruled by the planet Mercury, the Gemini personality has a duality that others find charming and frustrating in equal amounts.

Gemini is the sign of duality; the other side of the Gemini personality can be brooding and sometimes even mean.

This sign is one of duality that is revealed in quick mood changes and often has two careers, two houses, two vehicles and even two lovers.

Yin Yang-this symbol of duality can be used to express light and dark.

The destructive power of fire has to be revered and respected but there is a duality that exists.

Some people may choose to pay tribute to a Gemini in their life or give praise to the ideals of duality, much like the Ying and the Yang.

They are dominant over the sky and are symbolic of duality as they balance their day with the dominance of the sun.

Japanese clansmen from as far back as 1185 AD admired butterflies for their duality--humble caterpillar and aristocratic butterfly--and their symmetric appearance.

This serves to show duality in people and the ability to do good as well as evil.

In God there is no distinction or difference, whereas in all substances or things there is duality, arising from the element of matter.

James Ward, in Naturalism and Agnosticism (1899), starts from the same phenomenalistic views of Mach and Kirchhoff about mechanics; he proceeds to the hypothesis of duality within experience, which we have traced in James Ward.

What, then, could we know from this " duality in experience" ?

The third system was that of Nylander and his followers, who did not accept the Schwenderian doctrine of duality.

In the second volume of the Entwickelungen he clearly established on a firm and independent basis the great principle of duality.

In this memoir by Gergonne, the theory of duality is very clearly and explicitly stated; for instance, we find " da p s la geometrie plane, a chaque theoreme ii en repond necessairement un autre qui s'en deduit en echangeant simplement entre eux les deux mots points et droites; tandis que dans la geometrie de l'espace ce sont les mots points et plans qu'il faut echanger entre eux pour passer d'un theoreme a son correlatif "; and the plan is introduced of printing correlative theorems, opposite to each other, in two columns.

There is a duality - an inward and outward nature - to the Gemini personality in love.

Other symbols like the Yin and Yang can be engulfed in flames to further the duality of the symbol.

Hence he explains, what is a duality for us is only a " quasi-duality " from a universal standpoint.

Like Aphrodite and Adonis in Syria, Baal and Astarte at Sidon, and Isis and Osiris in Egypt, the Great Mother and Attis formed a duality which symbolized the relations between Mother Earth and her fruitage.

The theorem of duality is considered and developed, but chiefly in regard to its metrical applications, by Michel Chasles in the Memoire de geometrie sur deux principes generaux de la science, la dualite et l'homographie, which forms a sequel to the Apercu historique l'origine t.

This is partly due to the fact that Reid builds more distinctly than Price on the foundation laid by Butler; especially in his acceptance of that duality of governing principles which we have noticed as a cardinal point in the latter's doctrine.

Indeed, in order to oppose this unity of being to the realistic duality, both materialists and idealists describe themselves as monists, and call realists dualists by way of disparagement.

Under the second head, according to Ward, as according to Wundt, knowledge is experience; we must start with the duality of subject and object, or perpetual reality, phenomenon, in the unity of experience, and not believe, as realists do, that either subject or object is distinct from this unity; moreover, experience requires " conation," because it is to interesting objects that the subject attends; conation is required for all synthesis, associative and intellective; thinking is doing; presentation, feeling, conation are one inseparable whole; and the unity of the subject is due to activity and not to a substratum.

Schleiermacher's formula obviously ascribes a function in knowledge to thought as such, and describes in a suggestive manner a duality of the intellectual and organic functions, resting on a parallelism of thought and being whose collapse into identity it is beyond human capacity to grasp. It is rather, however, a statement of a way in which the relations of the terms of the problem may be conceived than a system of necessity.

The results of her study of German philosophy were seen in philosophical essays; in lectures on "Doubt and Belief," "The Duality of Character," &c., delivered in1860-1861in her home in Boston, and later in Washington; and in addresses before the Boston Radical Club and the Concord school of philosophy.

Hence the Nestorians, who insisted upon the duality of the natures to such a degree as to lose sight of the unity of the person, and who rejected the term Theotokos, repudiated the decrees both of Ephesus and of Chalcedon, and upon the promulgation of the decrees of Chalcedon formally separated from the church.

This extreme assertion of duality as against Christological unity was naturally marked as heretical.

He must be an essential unity prior to this duality, a Being wholly without difference or determination; and, accordingly, the highest mode of human existence, in which the soul apprehends this absolute, must be one in which all definite thought is transcended, and all consciousness of self lost in the absorbing ecstasy.

In this work also, of which unfortunately only one volume appeared instead of the projected five, we see for the first time the principle of duality introduced from the very beginning as an immediate outflow of the most fundamental properties of the plane, the line and the point.