On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 13:31:50 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
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On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 09:06:17 -0400, PocoLoco
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On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:31:39 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:13:37 -0400, PocoLoco
wrote:

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:08:51 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 07:48:48 -0400, PocoLoco
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.

Example?

Judgement and evaluation are part of the decision making process, but they are
not the decision.

Not really.

Judgment and evaluation are emotive states and not relevant.

Only facts can resolve true/false statements.

We disagree. Evaluating alternatives is part of the process. We use facts to
evaluate alternatives.

There are no "alternatives". Once you start searching for
alternatives, then the process of discovering the truth is corrupted.

How are you equating decision making with 'discovering the truth'?

You can only have a true decision based on logic.

Any alternative decision is by definition false.

(Can you tell I'm really bored this morning?) :)

Yes.

I think you're confusing the decision (the process of deciding) with the outcome
of the decision, either A or B (1 or 0). Or maybe I am.

One could choose A regardless of the logic leading to the decision. My wife does
that all the time.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."