Sentence examples for dichotomy either from inspiring English sources

This leads to a tired dichotomy: either China is already innovating, or it's on borrowed time and will stagnate like other middle income countries.

It has gained in popularity since the 1980s as a third option to the either-or dichotomy (either quantitative or qualitative research) that had previously dominated the social and behavioral sciences.

The second is the "form of government" concerning how those people rule, and here Kant offers a variation on the traditional good/bad dichotomy: either republican or despotic.

This reflects Kennedy's worry when he claims that the following argument for attributing mental properties to animals rests on a false dichotomy: either animals are stimulus-response machines, or they are agents with beliefs and desires; since animals are not stimulus-response machines, they must be psychological agents (Kennedy 1992).

It relies upon a false dichotomy – either the ringing is caused by something in Mickey's brain or by the phone – and to pick one is to in some way disregard the other.

Since then, planetary scientists have bandied about two hypotheses to explain the dichotomy: either some strangeness with the internal dynamics of Mars generated a thicker planetary crust in the south, or the northern surface was stripped away by a megameteor impact.

James Traub ("Everyone Is a Realist Now," Oct. 30) sets up a false dichotomy of either invading Iraq for humanitarian reasons or ignoring the atrocities of Saddam Hussein.

Members of the T-box (Tbx) gene family are decisive players in this early myocardial dichotomy by either promoting (Tbx5, Tbx20) or inhibiting (Tbx2, Tbx3) the chamber gene program in the early heart tube.

As we Democrats plan to broaden our popular appeal and base in the coming years, it would behoove us to forge alliances with an emergent and growing transdenominational progressive Christianity, which sees no simple dichotomy between either religion and science or spirituality and rationality, but rather thrives on a lively interplay between faith and the intellect.

The method of dichotomy is either impossible (for it would put a single group under different divisions or contrary groups under the same division), or it only furnishes a single ultimate differentia for each species, which either alone or with its series of antecedents has to constitute the ultimate species.

It may be comprehensible, but it's yesterday's politics, and traps us in this egregious dichotomy where either Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters must take the whole country with them, or he must be obliterated to make way for "sensible" Labour.