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Frederick DeW. Bolman Jr. insisted that reviewers consider the book in this way: "In general, we have a right to discover, if we can, the meaning of a work as comprehensive as Either/Or, considering it upon its own merits and not reducing the meaning so as to fit into the author's later perspective. It occurred to me that this was a service to ...
Neither is an English pronoun, adverb, and determiner signifying the absence of a choice in an either/or situation. Neither may also refer to: Neither ...
Indo-European languages that have long ago lost the dual still sometimes have residual traces of it, such as the English distinctions both vs. all, either vs. any, and neither vs. none. The Norwegian både , cognate with English both , has further evolved to be able to refer to more than two items, as in både epler, pærer, og druer ...
Hobson's choice is one between something or nothing. John Stuart Mill, in his book Considerations on Representative Government, refers to Hobson's choice: When the individuals composing the majority would no longer be reduced to Hobson's choice, of either voting for the person brought forward by their local leaders, or not voting at all. [6]
In logic and semantics, the term statement is variously understood to mean either: a meaningful declarative sentence that is true or false, [citation needed] or; a proposition. Which is the assertion that is made by (i.e., the meaning of) a true or false declarative sentence. [1] [2]
Nouns have distinct singular and plural forms; that is, they decline to reflect their grammatical number; consider the difference between book and books. In addition, a few English pronouns have distinct nominative (also called subjective ) and oblique (or objective) forms; that is, they decline to reflect their relationship to a verb or ...
A common form of using contraries in false dilemmas is to force a choice between extremes on the agent: someone is either good or bad, rich or poor, normal or abnormal. Such cases ignore that there is a continuous spectrum between the extremes that is excluded from the choice. [5]
Either/or and related terms may refer to: Either/Or (Kierkegaard book), an influential book by philosopher Søren Kierkegaard; Either/Or (Batuman novel), a novel by Elif Batuman; Either/Or, music by Elliott Smith; Either/Or, a comedy game show; either...or and neither...nor, examples of correlative conjunctions in English