property dualism
PROP-er-tee DOO-al-iz-um
ˈprɒpərti ˈdjuːəlɪzəmListen
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the philosophical position that while there is only one kind of substance — physical substance — it has two fundamentally distinct kinds of properties: physical properties describable by the natural sciences and phenomenal or mental properties that are irreducible to physical description; property dualism accepts the scientific view that the mind is realised in the brain but denies that the phenomenal properties of conscious experience can be fully explained in purely physical terms; it is distinguished from substance dualism, which posits two distinct substances, and from physicalism, which holds that mental properties are ultimately physical; David Chalmers' naturalistic dualism is a prominent property dualist position
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