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Dichotomy   /daɪkˈɑtəmi/   Listen
Dichotomy

noun
1.
Being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses.  Synonym: duality.






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"Dichotomy" Quotes from Famous Books



... by prefixing the word "not"; and we may imagine that we have divided the Class first thought of into two smaller Classes, whose Differentiae are contradictory. This kind of Division is called 'Dichotomy'. ...
— Symbolic Logic • Lewis Carroll

... to understand, that it should have been proposed to carry into ideation the dichotomy between the physical and the moral. Many excellent authors have made the domain of the mind begin in the ideal. Matter is that which does not think. Descartes, in his Discours de la Methode (4th part), remarking that he may pretend "not to have a body, and that there is no world ...
— The Mind and the Brain - Being the Authorised Translation of L'me et le Corps • Alfred Binet

... me) neither was bound to a museum catalogue nor indulged in visions either of a complete scala naturae or of an hypothetical phylogeny. He classified animals as he found them; and, as a logician, he had a dichotomy for every difference which presented itself to his mind. At one time he divided animals into those with blood and those without, at another into the air-breathers and the water-breathers; into the wild and the tame, the social and the solitary, ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various



Words linked to "Dichotomy" :   categorization, dichotomize, dichotomous, duality, classification, categorisation



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