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navigation, search Property dualism: the exemplification of two
kinds of property by one kind of substance  Property dualism
describes a category of positions in the philosophy of mind
which hold that, although the world is constituted of just one
kind of substance - the physical kind - there exist two distinct
kinds of properties: physical properties and mental properties.
In other words, it is the view that non-physical, mental
properties (such as beliefs, desires and emotions) inhere in
some physical substances (namely brains).  Substance dualism, on
the other hand, is the view that there exist two kinds of
substance: physical and non-physical (the mind), and
subsequently also two kinds of properties which adhere in those
respective substances.  Emergent Materialism[edit]  The
antithesis of reductionism, emergentism is the idea that
increasingly complex structures in the world give rise to the
"emergence" of new properties that are something