Most types of dualities lead to false beliefs. There is only one type that does not. There are three types of dualisms, or dualities. To deal with these, let some ideas be introduced: imperfect, perfect, and pluperfect dualities.
Imperfect dualities are dualities of opposition arising from (imperfect) difference between opposites. The opposition is a process that resolves difference. In terms of the Hegelian Dialectic as Hegel espoused, two things, thesis and antithesis, equal synthesis. What Hegel did not reveal is that the formation of Synthesis is itself a process and that it can go in two opposite directions: thesis can combine with antithesis to produce synthesis, as well as that synthesis can devolve into thesis and antithesis. Thus, what is unique about this process is that the synthetic process is both the sum and the difference of the thesis and antithesis. In other words, synthesis is a two-way street, so-to-speak.
Perfect dualities are not opposites and are dualities of (perfect) difference wherein exactly one defines the other. For example Disorder and Order are nominally opposites, but order defines disorder and not vice versa. Likewise, Light defines Darkness and not vice versa. As for Order from Chaos, it is possible, but again, without Order there is no Chaos although there can be Order without Chaos. Thus, Order in that case makes a Circle that returns to Itself.
Pluperfect dualities may or may not be opposites and are dualities of (pluperfect) difference wherein they define each other; they are dualities of complement. For example, the Tao of eastern philosophy is a duality of two things that are not opposites, but define one another, and compliment. The same is true for any duality that pattern the yin-yang duality of the Tao (the way of the Universe).
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