Dichotomies

concept of dualism and complementarity in Chinese philosophy, cosmology, traditional medicine, fengshui, and protoscience, opposing “yang“ (for solar, masculine, active, warm) with “yin“ (for lunar, feminine, passive, cool)

In lexical semantics, opposites are words lying in an inherently incompatible binary relationship. For example, something that is even entails that it is not odd. It is referred to as a 'binary' relationship because there are two members in a set of opposites. The relationship between opposites is known as opposition. A member of a pair of opposites can generally be determined by the question: "What is the opposite of X"

conclusion that quantum objects behave at times like particles and at times like waves

open question in philosophy of how abstract minds interact with physical bodies

200px|thumb|In this image, the universal set U (the entire rectangle) is dichotomized into the two sets A (in pink) and its complement Ac (in grey). A dichotomy () is a partition of a whole (or a set) into two parts (subsets). In other words, this couple of parts must be jointly exhaustive: everything must belong to one part or the other, and mutually exclusive: nothing can belong simultaneously to both parts.

dichotomy in religion, ethics, and philosophy

about how to distinguish between science and nonscience, including between science, pseudoscience, and other products of human activity, like art and literature, and beliefs

classification of sex and gender into two distinct, opposite and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine

true when either but not both inputs are true

socio-economic and political divide

system of classifying political positions, ideologies and parties

political theory that states the far-left and far-right have similarities

quantum objects have complementary properties that cannot all be measured simultaneously

philosophical problem articulated by David Hume in 1739 about how one can deduce prescriptive statements (what ought to be) from descriptive statements (what is)

pair of opposed concepts in linguistics

terms describing sentence structure in linguistics

two kinds of linguistic field research

Interrogation and negotiation tactic

strategies of information processing and ordering of knowledge

type of magic

inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed, loving relationship

sociological notions where in-group is a social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member, while an out-group is a social group with which an individual does not identify

A contronym or contranym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word cleave can mean "to cling" or "to split apart". This feature is also called enantiosemy, enantionymy (enantio- means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy. An enantiosemic term is by definition polysemic (having more than one meaning).

rule applied to discriminate racially

adjective to worldliness, as opposed to sacredness

failure in thought to bring together both positive qualities and negative aspects of people into a cohesive whole

Japanese hierarchical relationship

two propositions or events that cannot both be true

Rede lecture held in 1959 by Charles Percy Snow (published as an essay in the same year), theorizing a splitting between two cultures (humanistic and scientific) in Western education patterns, as a major hindrance to solving the world's problems

1944 non-fiction work by Erwin Schrödinger

cultural, historical and political divide

Enantiodromia ( – "opposite" and δρόμος, drómos – "running course") is a principle introduced in the West by psychiatrist Carl Jung. In Psychological Types, Jung defines enantiodromia as "the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time." It is similar to the principle of equilibrium in the natural world, in that any extreme is opposed by the system in order to restore balance. When things get to their extreme, they turn into their opposite. Jung adds that "this characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, one-sided tendency dominates conscious life; in t

type of intensional definition, and it is composed of two parts (genus (or family) and differentia)

pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning

relationship involving simultaneous or alternating emotions of love and hate

the idea, attributed to classical/pre-Keynesian economics, that real variables (output and real interest rates) and nominal variables (money value of output and the interest rate) can be analyzed separately

two terms of Saussure

term

ancient distinction between Chinese people and foreigners

political rhetoric

quantum physics concepts developed by David Bohm regarding wholeness and non-locality

phrase

relationship between an object and a representation of that object

two distinct communities of a university town

humans' ability to separate foreground from background in visual images

metaphorical contrast of white and black

gendered separation of public and private spheres

concept by Sandra Bem

division of programming languages into system programming and scripting