I spent the early part of the summer teaching an online symbolic logic class at Baylor. One of the refreshing things about teaching logic is how tidy so much of it is. There are rules for testing ...

A lot of binary, dichotomous, either-or arguments have been playing out in K-12 education over the past few years. For example, early in the pandemic, debates occurred about whether students should ...

The fight over immigration and ICE has provoked some serious examples of binary thinking, says Paul Prather. Stephen Maturen Getty Images Supposedly it was the literary icon F. Scott Fitzgerald who ...

But this age of binary thinking is not new. Here are two examples in our last two presidencies: President Obama was one-half white and one-half black, but he was referred to in the media as “black”; ...

Public schools have been plagued by the same divisive issues that have divided the country for the last several years. Binary or either-or thinking makes it difficult for people to listen to or work ...

We are going to show you two techniques for changing HOW you think about issues. How You Think: Binary thinking dominates as a conversation mode. Binary thinking is the tendency to view the world as ...

One of our biggest challenges is striking the right balance between living a great life today and planning for tomorrow. Remember old-fashioned teeter-totters? The kind made from a wobbly wooden board ...

Binary thinking -- either/or thinking -- is the opposite of quantified, dimensional thinking and it is especially dangerous in medicine and mental health. It is the thinking of division. It falls ...

“There are two sides to every story.” That lesson was drummed into me when I studied journalism years ago. However, stories are more complicated than that, and so are human beings. In today’s complex ...

Why is academia persistently described as a space that one can either remain in or else leave, totally and forever? Why are people either in academia or out of it? First of all, we imagine the academy ...

When conceptualizing misophonia, it helps to shift your thinking away from that which is reductionist. Reductionist thinking may be necessary for scientists to break down that which they seek to ...