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- noun Plural form of
dualism .
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Your technique speaks to one of my primary “Relaxed Writer” messages: that with awareness, we can boost our productivity by not buying into the “Either/Or” dualisms we create (art “vs.” craft; writing “vs.” life, form “vs.” content, etc.) but instead, with practice, we can learn to work in both realms simultaneously, as you do when writing.
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For Sargisson, utopianism challenges such taken-for-granted dualisms behind conventional thinking.
Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008
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The full blown theory, M theory, predicts that all versions of string theories are the same modulo dualisms.
Can a Really, Really Fast Spacecraft Turn Into A Black Hole? | Universe Today 2010
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Through a theatrical framing device, it thereby re-emerges to remind us that those dualisms, even in their new incarnations, will remain squarely within law's ambit.
Heinze on Oppression and Resistance in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors Mary L. Dudziak 2009
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The disability hierarchy thing has a lot to do with the human tendency to think in stories, and dualisms, doesn't it?
Blogging Against Disabilism: disabilism within disability Elizabeth McClung 2009
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If feminist theology were able to overcome the dualisms inscribed in patriarchal sexuality, Plaskow argues, and if women were able to claim their own sexuality, we would come to understand our world as body-mediated, and our humanity as sensuous as well as rational.
Judith Plaskow. 2009
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No small insight in a world still wracked by false dualisms.
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American society seems to be plagued with dualisms, with those who hold one extreme position demonizing those who believe the opposite.
Sal Westrich James Gurney 2009
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One characteristic of Heinlein's work that has been noted is its propensity for containing dualisms -- a propensity of which this letter is a good example.
Antiquarian Weird Tales: More Heinlein Chris Perridas 2009
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One characteristic of Heinlein's work that has been noted is its propensity for containing dualisms -- a propensity of which this letter is a good example.
Archive 2009-07-01 Chris Perridas 2009
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