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firemonkey
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06 Sep 2018, 11:08 am

The trouble with categorical systems is the arbitrary difference between "you have it" and "you don't".


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06 Sep 2018, 11:22 am

firemonkey wrote:
The trouble with categorical systems is the arbitrary difference between "you have it" and "you don't".
... as well as "You may have it", "You may have else something like it", "You have something entirely different", and "You have it, as well as these other things, too".


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06 Sep 2018, 6:30 pm

Hardline binary approaches to life are troublesome in any field - whether it is religion, politics, medicine, media, social forums, whatever. Black and white thinking drives a lot of the binary thinking and propaganda, which ignores shades of grey, complexity, confounding variables, critical thinking, and anything that doesn't suit the usually not-very-well hidden agendas some binary thinking propagandists have.



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06 Sep 2018, 6:34 pm

I suspect that everyone is binary about some things, and not others.


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