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What is a duality?

What is a duality? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.
  2. (projective geometry) The interchangeability of points and planes.
  3. (mathematics) The mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system.
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The film is about a good guy going bad and depicts the essential duality of human nature that oscillates between good and evil.
Wine and life-giving waters were on equal footing in Egyptian culture, and they also shared a duality in both myth and in fact.
Presumably it's meant to further illustrate the themes of duality and inner struggle, but the only effect is that of an irritating side-show.
His development of the pole and polar lines associated with conics led to the principle of duality.
Just how Gilliam's duality came about is unclear, but he apparently mastered it early in life.
I know it looks like the old positivist duality, but it does give some insight into the way that political romanticism poeticizes politics.

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