1. The dualist holds that there can be different ways of conveying the same content.

2. For most novels of literary merit, neither the dualist nor the monist doctrine will be entirely satisfactory.

3. That's what the soul does, so says the dualist.

4. So suppose I was a dualist.

5. The kind of dualist position that we are considering in this class is an interactionist position, where the soul commands the body.

6. Plato, as a dualist, portrays Socrates as being a dualist and that's just taken for granted.

7. Dualist could say that.

8. According to the dualist, the mind is this immaterial substance and we could call it by different names.

9. You could imagine the dualist coming back and saying, "Look, in the case of the heat-seeking missile or the robot for that matter, although it's doing things, it's just obeying orders.

10. Well, the dualist says, "That shows us that we have to believe that there's something non-physical about us.

11. Liang Qichao used such dualist concepts as reactionary and herald, restoration and emancipation, etc.

12. This dualist tendency is most active where Nietzsche offers his values most shrilling which is in the Antichrist.

13. One possible explanation, the dualist, that's the ghost of your mother, immaterial soul that she is, communicating to you while you're asleep.

14. The dualist principle, however, reappears in an acute form in a later period, after Zoroaster.

15. The dualist can explain that by appealing to ghosts and the like.

16. Let me say something more then about the dualist position.

17. And the more links that are discovered between mental and neural processes, the smaller the dualist gap becomes.

18. After Homer, the tragedians of fifth-century Athens reveal a dualist universe in which Zeus is transcendent and man introspective.

19. Shinto sanctuaries came under the control of this new sect, known also as Dualist Shintoism.

20. Idealism is often contrasted with materialism, both belonging to the class of monist as opposed to dualist or pluralist ontologies.

21. Now, I think the best response on the part of the dualist to this reply is to distinguish two aspects of feelings, two aspects of emotions.

22. And it's because of that that I think we shouldn't be dismissive of the dualist when the dualist says, "We've got to believe in souls in order to explain it."

23. And what the physicalist would need to do for each one of those-- For each one of those you can imagine a dualist who says, "We need to believe in a soul so as to explain seances.

24. Now, it's often said this is a major problem for Cartesian dualism because if you're a dualist then it looks like you have to deny causal closure.

25. So that's I think the position that we ought to ascribe to the dualist.

26. The alternative view that we're going to consider is not dualist, but monist.

27. If your answer is no, you are a closet dualist.

28. And this is no surprise if what we are is the workings of our physical brains, but it is extremely difficult to explain if one is a dualist.