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Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 30 Sep 2005 18:12:35 -0700, wrote:
Stereotypes facilitate binary thinking because, with a stereotype,
entire groups of people can be reduced to a single factor subject to a
preexisting conclusion. When you reduce your question to two single
factors, you have a binary proposition.
Not really.
Mathematically, in particular when building a truth table, any number
of inputs always resolve to two states - 1 and 0 (yes/no, true/false).
This is true for any number system actually no matter how it is
expressed. But I digress.
There are varying decision states in truth tables, but they still
resolve to 1 or 0.
In fact, if you combine varying states of NOT, OR, AND, NOR, NAND and
EOR and resolve their states, you always end up with either 1 or 0.
This is true for any given number of inputs.
So, in effect, almost all decisions, if proper rules of logic are
applied, are binary - yes/no, true/false.
Can't be any other way.
Only when probable results are considered. Many decisions require moral
judgment and evaluation and in some cases will transcend the bounds of
objectivity or logic.
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