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Glossary Menus

dual

To bring Integral Relational Logic into consciousness, dual is the primal concept that denotes the bifurcating nature of the Universe. Within what George Boole called a ‘universe of discourse’ in Laws of Thought in 1854, a dual set has the opposite attribute of any set that is defined in the formation of concepts in the Cosmic Psyche.

A defined set and its dual are thus a pair of dual sets, which are inseparable in Wholeness, as Nonduality. Nevertheless, when studying the relativistic world of form, we can distinguish two basic ways of dealing with duals, called duality and dualism, where duals either coexist harmoniously or fight each other, when individuals identify with one pole, rejecting the other.

During the five thousand years of the patriarchal epoch, dualism has prevailed in human affairs, as we see increasingly today in the polarization of society. In contrast, duality is the distinctive characteristic of decent folk, respecting differences, whether they appear to be complementary or contradictory.

But such apparently contradictory duals are actually complementary, as Heraclitus of Ephesus pointed out with his Hidden Harmony, based on Nonduality, where individuals realize that none of us is ever separate from the Divine for an instant and Peace, Perfect Peace prevails.

Of course, duals are not always so cut and dried. In actuality, duals often form structures called the Circle, Cross, and Triangle of Duality in Integral Relational Logic.

Etymology

As a noun in late Middle English, denoting ‘either of the two middle incisor teeth in each jaw’, and as an adjective from 1607 ‘consisting of two parts, elements, or aspects’, from Latin duālis, from duo ‘two’, from Greek duo ‘two, both’, from PIE base *dwo- ‘two’. Latin duālis is supposed to be a translation by Quintillian of Greek duikos.

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