Binary concepts do not hobble academic thought

Critics underestimated the human imagination’s capacity to render concepts flexible, says Frank Furedi

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#1 Submitted by murozel... on August 1, 2020 - 6:48am
The article, itself both drawing the boundaries between the negative and posltive perceptions of binary thinking thus giving another example of binary thinking, and then making a wider conceptualisation as a conclusion, is a good example of “praticing what you preach”, in my opinion. Many thanks for sharing.

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