Literary notes about dyad (AI summary)
The term "dyad" is employed in literature to signify a fundamental pair or dual principle, often highlighting the tension between two opposing or complementary elements. In works exploring cosmological and philosophical ideas, the dyad becomes a symbol for the origin of contrasts, division, and even cosmic imbalance ([1], [2], [3]), while also appearing as a pivotal concept in discussions of creation and dual movement, as seen in references to the dyad that “dared” to emerge from unity ([4]). In scientific and technical contexts, it is used more literally to denote a pair or coupled entities, such as in chromosomal structures or chemical groupings ([5], [6], [7]), and even in linguistic studies where concepts of evenness and dual elements arise ([8], [9]). Thus, across a range of texts—from metaphysical treatises to empirical analyses—the dyad encapsulates the idea of two interdependent parts that together form a unified whole.
- Two, or the dyad, is the origin of contrasts and separation, and is an evil principle.
— from Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by George Barton Cutten - “The number Two , or the dyad, the origin of contrasts, is the symbol of diversity, or inequality, of division and of separation.
— from Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould - What is to become two, must partake of the Dyad: what is to become one, of the Monad.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote - 215 Num. 10. 216 By virtue of which, according to the Pythagoreans, the dyad "dared" to issue from the unity.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus - 33-36), and the chromosomes change into the dyad form (fig. 36), in which they come into the second maturation spindle (figs.
— from Studies in Spermatogenesis (Part 1 of 2) by N. M. (Nettie Maria) Stevens - OH 2 FH Ne—— SO 3 Cl(OH)O 3 A—— Dyad and Hexad.
— from The Progress of the Century - Dyad from anaphase of first maturation mitosis.
— from Studies in Spermatogenesis (Part 1 of 2) by N. M. (Nettie Maria) Stevens - (If there be assumed) the (dyad of) aggregates with its two causes, (there takes place) non-establishment of those (two aggregates).
— from The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by SankaracaryaSacred Books of the East, Volume 1 - Deed , adj. dead, S2, C2; ded , S, PP; dæd , S; dyad , S2; deade , pl. , S.—AS. déad ; cp.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson