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Part of understanding fallacies involves going beyond logic to empirical psychology in order to explain why there is a tendency to commit or fall for the fallacy in question. [ 9 ] [ 1 ] In the case of the false dilemma , the tendency to simplify reality by ordering it through either-or-statements may play an important role.
The political (rather than analytic or conceptual) critique of binary oppositions is an important part of third wave feminism, post-colonialism, post-anarchism, and critical race theory, which argue that the perceived binary dichotomy between man/woman, civilized/uncivilised, and white/black have perpetuated and legitimized societal power structures favoring a specific majority.
In linguistics, a yes–no question, also known as a binary question, a polar question, or a general question, [1] is a question whose expected answer is one of two choices, one that provides an affirmative answer to the question versus one that provides a negative answer to the question.
The semiotic square is formed by an initial binary relationship between two contrary signs. S 1 is considered to be the assertion/positive element and S 2 is the negation/negative element in the binary pair: The second binary relationship is now created on the ~S axis. ~S 1 is considered to be the complex term, and ~S 2 is the neutral term ...
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In set theory, a dichotomous relation R is such that either aRb, bRa, but not both. [1]A false dichotomy is an informal fallacy consisting of a supposed dichotomy which fails one or both of the conditions: it is not jointly exhaustive and/or not mutually exclusive.
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A binary decision is a choice between two alternatives, for instance between taking some specific action or not taking it. [1] Binary decisions are basic to many fields. Examples include: Truth values in mathematical logic, and the corresponding Boolean data type in computer science, representing a value which may be chosen to be either true or ...