Binary Quotes
On choices, logic, and resisting either-or thinking
Several voices here push back against binary thinking about Human qualities, comparing rigid either-or reasoning in government to the closed logic of a fundamentalist religion.
Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.
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I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
Government Quotes
At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.
When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.
Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.
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Others use binary more technically, defining a single bit as one yes-or-no choice, a contrast that shows how the same word covers both cold logic and warm Like-minded judgment.
