What is Dualism - courtesy of A_Smoking_fox Options

What is dualism.

When we have established what we think dualism is, A_Smoking_Fox would like to branch off into and discuss different parts which will probably go into a new thread.

Which part of dualism are we interested to explore in this topic.

So any offers?

Praxis, I was referring to the last definition you had proposed. I should have made a quote in my previous post to show to what I am referring to.

Dualism is a theory for explaining experiences according to two different states.

I mean, if we say just “different elements” without any other definition of the word “elements”, one could imagine two things, anything in general. Would you consider them a dualistic pair, if they are not dichotomy, polarity, antithesis, or complements? Or according to my proposition, if they are not contradictory or complimentary?

I used the word “opposition” to describe in general, the categorisation of dualism, about which we haven’t reached an agreement, yet. I didn’t use the categories that you or I had described, in order not to bring into the discussion something on which we haven’t argued yet, before reaching an agreement about the present matter.

What I was meaning is that I don't find different an appropriate term to for the definition of dualism, if it is not accompanied by some other definitions of the “elements” term. The definition that A Smoking Fox was proposing in his last post was covering that. But, then I think that since opposition presuppose difference the word “different” can be replaced by the terms consisting the categories of dualism (I am borrowing the word that A Smoking Fox used to refer to the description that you had made for the possibilities of two-fold dynamics, because the word "model" that I used maybe is not the right English word).

If we can agree on that, maybe we would discuss the categories of dualism that you and I had proposed in our previous posts, in order to find the word (probably words I think) to add to the definition? And I think that we also have to give definitions for these terms (whatever we agree them to be).

So maybe the definition that A Smoking Fox had proposed could be modified to the following form :

Dualism is the theory that considers our experience of some possible thought or thing or state, to consist a two-fold dynamic of …?........?…. elements, or categories of the element.

I placed “….?...?...” in the point, which, I think, we have to agree first in our categorization, in order to fill it, so, I am leaving it blank for the moment.

PS1. I liked very much the term “two-fold dynamics” so I merged it into the definition.