On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:34:41 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:15:17 -0400, PocoLoco
wrote:

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:06:45 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On 30 Sep 2005 19:47:48 -0700, wrote:


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.

Nothing transcends the bounds of objectivity or logic chains -
everything is either true or false - even in quantum states which is
as close as you can get to a real metaphysical concept that actually
works in the real world.

Moral judgments are entirely subjective, but they can still be
resolved into true/false statements - 1s and 0s if you examine the
logic chain properly. I'll be the first to admit it is difficult, but
still possible.

There can be only one true and one false - no inbetween no matter how
many different states of logic are used to process the answer.

Be careful, you're stepping on the toes of a lot of liberals who claim
conservatives are 'binary thinkers' and therefore bad.

I would posit that any individual who denies that binary states are
the basis for all thought, left or right, is ignorant.

Whoops! I misread 'would' for 'could'.

Do you think you could get some of the liberals to admit that, in reality, they
*are* binary thinkers after all?

Remember, 'binary thinker' is one of the names many liberals love to call
conservatives. They believe it's derogatory.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."