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dichotomize
verb
To separate into two parts or classifications.
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The main problem for theorists arises from the inveterate tendency to dichotomize thought and feeling.
That is the subject of Carroll's final chapter, which begins with an attack on the "ancient human tendency to dichotomize" and then, four pages later, sets up the grandest dichotomy of all, between "good religion and bad religion".
A sort of irony seemed to be at play here, he said: the tendency to wrongly dichotomize knowledge and skill, "intellectual" work versus "hands-on" labor, seemed to be getting recapitulated at an institutional level.
There is a deep-seated tendency in our culture, Krakauer says, to dichotomize brains and brawn, cognition and movement.
Terms like "conservative" and "liberal," "traditionalist" and "progressive" are almost unavoidable shorthand, though they suffer from their origins in political categories and almost inevitably oversimplify and dichotomize religious realities that are multifaceted.
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Such a perspective would appear to transcend a dichotomizing view of global cities and the national state.
This argument, to me, juxtaposes crude and dichotomizing sex and gender essentialism with a subtler contraction, for implicitly McGinn casts himself as subtle and nuanced, and his student as less so (and he claimed that America failed to understand irony…).
"It's this Western, dichotomized, Cartesian thing.... Like Jesus rising".
My own main alarm about ballet — not one that troubles Ms. Homans — is that its dependence on pointwork for women and partnering by men proposes a dichotomizing view of the sexes that is at best outmoded and at worst repellently sexist.
"Somehow people are OK in their minds dichotomizing," he said.
Magurran commits the fallacy of dichotomizing development into nature versus nurture, then suggests that Hrdy denies the role of instinct.
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