Hi All: Every once in awhile someone on this site gets slammed for suggesting a dichotomy (right/wrong, good/evil, white/black) or as it is termed in academe, "binary thinking." A wonderfully funny article on this subject can be found at:
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=0d88916qty2kc0t0b0gn0bsz1fmdjp7k With tongue in check, the author points out that: "Binary logic structures the very computers on which most attacks on binary logic are composed." He blames the assault on dichotomies on an academic "cult of complication," and suggests, "Perhaps it is time to return to Ockham's principle of parsimony, his so-called razor: 'Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.' " The author is a professor of history, adding credibility to his mocking of academic devotion to "elevating confusion." Puncturing the "dichotomies are bad" balloon he points out that "some binary distinctions are worth recognizing if not celebrating, like the distinction between pregnant and not pregnant." Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
