"categorical thinking" is correct in written English.
You can use it when discussing a way of reasoning or reasoning process that involves categorizing and organizing information into distinct and mutually exclusive groups or categories. For example, "My professor encouraged me to use categorical thinking when analyzing the data for my research project."
This awareness of complexity felt like a kind of politics itself and a repudiation of the Bush administration's categorical thinking.
This habit of categorical thinking is both the virtue and the bane of celebrity advocacy.
This type of categorical thinking poses a major problem: the focus is on defining dance rather than examining what is onstage.
Kerry's difficulty, both politically and intellectually, may be stated thus: How do you find the categorical language you need to criticize an opponent who is himself intoxicated with categorical language and categorical thinking?
As for CroV, those 544 genes (composed of 730,000 base pairs, the DNA letters in which the language of the genes is written) mean its genome is bigger than those of several bacteria creatures which everyone agrees are alive.The problem with categorical thinking in biology is that evolution does not work like that.
As the psychologist Cordelia Fine explains in her book "Delusions of Gender," the influence of one kind of categorical thinking, neurosexism — justifying differential treatment by citing differences in neural anatomy or function — spills over to educational and employment disparities, family relations and arguments about same-sex institutions.
(In fact, the book is a challenge to categorical ways of thinking about most things, and to prescription per se: Nelson embraces ambivalence).
One way gender bias reinforces sexism is through the perpetuation of categorical, dichotomous thinking which represents masculinity and femininity as "opposites," femininity as inferiority, and nonconformity to gender norms as deviant.
Attending to what people do with functional foods and their reasoning tied to concrete instances of practice allowed us to suggest different kinds of distinctions and offer alternative ways of thinking about categorical uncertainties said to accompany the introduction of functional foods.
Kant's approach here which might seem to play into the hands of instrumentalists (see §4.1 above) who, while skeptical of the rational authority of the categorical imperative, follow Kant in thinking that the authority of hypothetical imperatives is obvious and unproblematic has been challenged.
Lewis (1952b, 1952c, 1955, Chapter 5) outlines categorical rational imperatives of doing and thinking, or versions of one rational imperative, in various ways, formulations, and detail.
