If we assume, as we must needs do, that the opinions which Basilides promulgates as the teaching of the "barbari" (Acta Archelai c. 55) were in fact his own, the fragments prove him to have been a decided dualist, and his teaching an interesting further development of oriental (Iranian) dualism. [Please select]
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He was not a monist, and we can certainly not call him a dualist. [Please select]
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One may feel inclined to refer mental phenomena to matter, and to deny them the prominence accorded them by the dualist. [Please select]
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On the other hand, the dualist may attempt to make clear, through philosophical reflection, what we mean by the matter and mind which experience seems to give us. [Please select]
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