In the binary opposition between "God" and "world," the term "God" occupies the privileged space and acts as the central principle, the One who confers identity to creatures to whom "He" stands in hierarchical relation.
Second, the binary opposition between deviant cultures and the culture of rights – between people who are morally wrong and an enlightened minority who is right – can hardly lead to genuine appraisal of local knowledge.
Thus the extension of the binary opposition between good and bad to the opposition between South Korea and North Korea has been made.
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.
But the attack was also intended to sharpen contradictions, to harden positions and polarise opinion, pushing France (and the rest of the world) away from complexity, from nuance, from the recognition that one can be, for example, a believing Muslim and a loyal French citizen, towards the simple binary opposition between "us" and "them", the binary of war.
In particular, scholars have expanded Orientalism's resolutely binary opposition between west and east into the richer concept of cross-cultural hybridity.
"The 'best' reviews were the ones that pointed up this incredibly dumb and vulgar binary opposition between McDonald 'sbad and ecology good, as though the work was some sort of attack on globalisation," says Jake.
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.
Though generally in agreement with Gunther Kress and his views favoring the multimodal workings of contemporary communication, the authors take issue with his construction of a binary opposition between words and images.
Rand's anti-government argument rested on another binary opposition, between "producers" who create wealth and "moochers" who feed off them.
