property dualism
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
7
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The doctrine that only material substances exist and may possess both physical and nonphysical properties.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "We have seen reasons to affirm property dualism: Consciousness and conscious states are mental and not physical. But what about the bearer of consciousness? Is it immaterial as well, or is it the brain or body or something else that is physical?"
- "What's radical about property dualism is that it claims that, besides all of these physical properties, the brain has some nonphysical properties."
- "Substance dualism leaves room for the possibility that the soul might be able to exist apart from the body, either before birth or after death; property dualism does not. Property dualism allows for the compatibility of mental and physical causation, since the cause of an action might under one aspect be describable as a physical event in the brain and under another aspect as a desire, emotion, or thought; substance dualism usually requires causal interaction between the soul and the body."