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The phrase "a binary opposition" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used in discussions of philosophy, literary theory, and cultural studies to describe a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning. Example: "In many narratives, the conflict is often framed as a binary opposition between good and evil."
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Rather than setting up a binary opposition between the theatre and the novel, Pritchett proposed a more intriguing division of English comic writing into "masculine" and "feminine".
In agreement with Jakobson, they claimed that each feature functions as a binary opposition that can be given the value of plus or minus in classifying the phonemes in underlying forms.
Mishra, the Indian essayist and novelist, shows how, like their European and American counterparts, Asian intellectuals of the 19th and 20th centuries responded to the colonial encounter by constructing a binary opposition between East and West.
What is offensive about von Trier's remarks is his setting of Jews and Nazis in a binary opposition, as if they were two sides to an argument, as well as his casual jokes about disliking Jews for disliking one Jew, and about disliking Jews for disliking Israel (I suppose he meant that he dislikes the policies of Israel).
As Woz gets to say to Jobs at one point, 'Being decent and gifted is not a binary opposition… '" Given that the film is a drama, and born out of much disputed territory, in particular Jobs's perversely cruel treatment of Brennan and his daughter, I wonder how much responsibility Boyle felt to the truth?
Her aim is "to grasp the deep structure of gender as a binary opposition which is common to psychic and cultural representations" (Benjamin 1988, 218).
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Moreover, to enhance the performance of the proposed Pareto-based algorithms, this paper intends to develop a binary opposition-based learning as a diversity mechanism for both algorithms.
But reducing the history of theater to a simple binary opposition is not quite so easy, like "The Seafarer" duking it out with "The Little Mermaid".
They proposed a contemporary binary opposition between clinic and laboratory.
First, there was a residual implicit assumption of a fundamental essential binary opposition between "science" and "the clinic," and this was compounded by an insufficiently critical translation of partisan early twentieth-century pro- and anti-medical-science rhetoric (which was part of an intraprofessional conflict) directly into the historical narrative.
The counter-concepts such as mindorbrain, beingornonbeing, objectivityorsubjectivity and others are originated from dualism, which was originally created to denote co-eternal binary opposition, a meaning with syntactic restrictions that are preserved in metaphysical and philosophical duality discourse.
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