I'm trying to remember the words monism, dualism, categories all over the place.

And so, if some people have fallen into the pit of metaphysical dualism, some really smart people, too, but we can reject all that.

Unlike the British and the Americans, the French are much less obsessed with sex than they are with financial scandal. Public opinion surveys reveal an interesting dualism the French want maximum freedom in the private sphere and maximum protection in the public sphere.

This is perhaps the main reason why the scientific rejection of dualism may be so hard to swallow it seems to diminish the moral status of people. If we are to accept scientific facts, we need to construct morality on a new foundation, one without souls.

The coming years, indeed decades, will be characterized by an increasingly aggressive US Chinese dualism as China becomes stronger and America s weakness persists. While this rivalry will have a military component, as evidenced by China s enormous military buildup, it will manifest itself primarily in terms of economic, political, and normative spheres of influence.

What lies behind the apparent paradox is the phenomenon of the two Mexicos, the McKinsey Global Institute s evocative term for the extreme dualism that characterizes Mexico s economy. Large firms, oriented toward the global economy, have done quite well, whereas traditional, informal firms exemplified by the ubiquitous neighborhood tortillerías have performed poorly while continuing to absorb the bulk of the economy s work force.

In fact, the overall flight of aerospace objects should be submitted to a sole legal regime, exactly to avoid unnecessary dualism (more or less justified in the case of the territorial and open sea because of the very low speed of ships and other similar factors), which undoubtedly produce confusion and malfunction of the whole legal system governing space activities