There are several problems in giving satisfactory definitions of the phonetic properties of these features, but there is no doubt that binary oppositions of this kind are needed for describing phonological patterns.
There is still some disagreement concerning whether consonantal places of articulation are specified appropriately by binary oppositions of this kind.
It also goes without saying that the existence of many black lesbians and gays makes the binary opposition of the two issues redundant.
While Stone does not position transsexuals as a third gender, she does propose that transsexuals "currently occupy a position which is nowhere, which is outside the binary oppositions of gendered discourse" (1991, 295).
Certain similar "realist" currents within ancient Chinese discourses formulated additional epistemological questions related to binary oppositions of identity and difference (tong/yi 同/異), or the consistency and quality (jian/bai 堅/白) of the objects of comprehension.
What the I.A.A.F. did to Caster Semenya last week puts her on a new frontier — and compels us all to ask tough questions about how we understand the old binary oppositions of masculinity and femininity.
In any case, insofar as Western monotheism has constructed the meaning of "God" in relation to "world" around binary oppositions of mind/body, reason/passion, and male/female, traditional theism remains complicitous with the very system of gender constructs and symbolic structures that underlie women's oppression.
Moreover, their binary oppositions of vowel height do not make it clear that the difference between low vowels and midvowels is the same as that between midvowels and high vowels.
Mathematics is clearly central to the work – from the simple binary opposition of chessboards to the super-perfect numbers involved – but there is a beautiful order in the spectacle itself: the sheer dizzying quantity of it all held in check, piece by piece, a beach contained in a chessboard.
A third "language" in which verse was composed further complicates the binary opposition of English and Irish: the Ulster-Scots dialect.
