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  Dichotomy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In biology, a dichotomy is a division of organisms into two groups, typically based on a characteristic present in one group and absent in the other.
Such dichotomies are used as part of the process of identifying species, as part of a dichotomous key, which asks a series of questions, each of which narrows down the set of organisms.
In botany, a dichotomy is a mode of branching by repeated bifurcation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dichotomy   (406 words)

  
 IDM : Definitions and Principles of Dichotomy
The concept of dichotomy allows for the enabling of a frame of reference, a universe of discourse, where classes are created such that, for example, an object is symbolized as either being in 'A' (in the class) or in '~A' (outside the class).
Dichotomies of complementarity are used more in synthesis, where the two elements are seen as parts of a whole with the whole emerging when the parts join - (Inclusive OR) - with the final whole being the universe of discourse.
Dichotomies of opposition, although in the same context, cannot occupy the same space, thus suggesting these dichotomies have their elements treated as wholes.
pages.prodigy.net /lofting/dicho.html   (1606 words)

  
 enlightenment: IOE, The Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy
In this posting, my purpose is to discuss the dichotomy for the purpose of re-invigorating the discussion of it that was curtailed when the IOE project began: I shall rely on Peikoff's essay, but the central topic is the dichotomy itself, not Peikoff's analysis of it.
The analytic-synthetic dichotomy, according to its advocates, subdivides true propositions into two classes; those whose truth can be established simply by an analysis of the meanings of the constituent concepts, and those whose truth can be established only by checking the facts of the case, i.e., by consulting reality.
The point of this story in the context of the analytic-synthetic dichotomy is that an immense amount of information about the units subsumed by a concept must be analyzed in the process of arriving at a definition of the concept.
enlightenment.supersaturated.com /essays/text/ioe1/09.html   (2148 words)

  
 IDM : Definitions and Principles of Dichotomy
Dichotomies of opposition ('gaussian' dichotomies) are used more in analysis, and where the two elements are often destructive when combined.
Dichotomies of complementarity ('power law' dichotomies) are used more in synthesis, where the two elements are seen as parts of a whole with the whole emerging when the parts join - (Inclusive OR) - with the final whole being the universe of discourse.
The dichotomy spans all levels of the hierarchy and as such reflects all levels of that dichotomy.
members.iimetro.com.au /~lofting/myweb/dicho.html   (1877 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Dichotomy
And they are jointly exhaustive, since both together again give A. false dichotomy is not jointly exhaustive or not mutually exclusive.
In Botony, A dichotomy is a mode of branching by repeated bifurcation.
The logical fallacy of false dilemma, also known as fallacy of the excluded middle, false dichotomy, either/or dilemma or bifurcation, is to set up two alternative points of view as if they were the only options, when they are not.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dichotomy   (918 words)

  
 Dichotomy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In (The science that studies living organisms) biology, a dichotomy is a distribution of genera into two species.
Such dichotomies are used as part of the process of classifying species, to build a (Click link for more info and facts about taxonomic key) taxonomic key.
In (The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures) computer science, more specifically programming language engineering, the term dichotomy is used to denote fundamental dualities in a language's design.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/dichotomy.htm   (272 words)

  
 Epinions.com - Vomit Dichotomy
Music is not even the reason you go to see a Vomit Dichotomy show, although their brand of truly brutal hardcore assault, with lyrics chronicling inquiries ranging from whether rehab is open to how that robin turned into a recycling bin, is by no means shabby.
Vomit Dichotomy the band cannot be seperated from Vomit Dichotomy the legend.
And even though Vomit Dichotomy doesn't play around that much anymore, their legend will continue for a small generation of whacked out punk kids who instinctively understand why a collection of intelligent college graduates would want to spend their time throwing up all over their audience.
www.epinions.com /content_3570704516   (421 words)

  
 The Idea-Expression Dichotomy in Copyright Law
Some commentators who have studied the idea-expression dichotomy in the greatest detail have criticized it, arguing that continued recognition of the dichotomy is neither justified nor helpful in deciding cases.
Thus, in the historical development of the idea-expression dichotomy, the courts have moved from a characterization that is strongly shifted toward the idea (which is unprotected) to one that is strongly shifted toward the expression (which is protected).
Apparently, the OTA Report viewed the abstractions test of the idea-expression dichotomy not as a limitation on the protectability of works, but as an accommodative principle that allows the copyright law to be expanded to new fields.
www.edwardsamuels.com /copyright/beyond/articles/ideapt1-20.htm   (13105 words)

  
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It's important to note that Dichotomy® was among the Chicagoland areas' first entities to compile and leverage electronic mailing lists.
In 1995 Dichotomy® started with the idea that we could build on ideas of value; we quickly learned that our people could not get enough of it or get it anywhere else.
Dichotomy® is an industry trailblazer and leader that remains true to its roots, while looking to the future.
www.dichotomychicago.com   (294 words)

  
 IDM : The Sense of Dichotomy: The Source of Meaning
We further introduce a proposed model of a neurologically-based template that is used in all dichotomy-based categorisations such that we can easily make analogies across disciplines since it is the elements of the template that resonate with meaning where these elements are the emotions to which words point to.
Thus, dichotomy can map anything and this indicates a reason for the ease in which humans make analogies across disciplines and can at times confuse map with territory.
The fundamental unit of 'measurement' is that of object:relationship (whole:aspects) which is at its optimum at level 3 (eight states); from there-on we are dealing with refinements although each level reveals a new set of 'meanings' that could not be expressed earlier since the require a specific degree of contextual development to sustain them.
pages.prodigy.net /lofting/plate.html   (1848 words)

  
 Ousterhout's Dichotomy
Ousterhout's Dichotomy, proposed in the early 80's by John Ousterhout as a software development paradigm, asserts that the world of application development is divided into two languages: a compiled language focusing on disk access and efficiency such as C, and a higher-level, typeless or loosely-typed scripting language with a simple, basic syntax.
Tcl's implementation of the dichotomy, for example, basically involves writing functions in C and converting them to Tcl procedures using the pretty simple Tcl API, then writing scripts to tie the functions together and create a working application out of it.
Back to theory - the main complaint against the dichotomy is that it supposedly rigidly categorizes "compiled" and "interpreted" languages and strictly defines their roles, when a growing amount of languages compile partially into "virtual machine" code, or at least use a bytecode internally (even Tcl does this!).
wiki.tcl.tk /9865   (1350 words)

  
 Trinity Journal: Rethinking the Judaism-Hellenism Dichotomy: A Historiographical Case Study of Second Peter and Jude
This dichotomy became, and persists as, a normative grid for many NT scholars because there was a certain aptness to it: historians can detect worldviews lying behind ancient literary works that are more reminiscent of Athens than Jerusalem and vice versa.
For that reason, "the dichotomy is obsolete and needs to be replaced because of ambiguities attached to the concepts [of Judaism and Hellenism]...
But the dichotomy again turns out to be weakly supported, and Gerdmar concludes that the simplest and best hypothesis for characterizing their literary form is "the 'Jewish' official letter,' or Aramaic official letter" (p.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3803/is_200210/ai_n9125816   (1217 words)

  
 The False Dichotomy and Narrative Journalism
A false dichotomy of the moment is one that pits narrative against traditional methods of news writing.
Attacks on narrative journalism come from a variety of sources: editors who fear fabrication scandals; reporters who can't pull off the narrative style and would rather "diss" it or dismiss it than learn it, and time-starved readers who say they want their news fast and to the point.
This false dichotomy of information and narrative can be framed anew, transformed into a spectrum of useful possibilities from which all good news writing can emerge.
www.nieman.harvard.edu /reports/00-3NRfall/False-Dichotomy.html   (1130 words)

  
 Seeing the martian crustal dichotomy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The simplest way to see the martian crustal dichotomy is to take a globe of Mars (I'm partial to "Hugg-a-Planet Mars", a stuffed globe of Mars available in many science stores, museum shops, and from the Planetary Society) and try to orient it so that you see as few large craters as possible.
The dichotomy can also be seen easily in MARS by Kieffer et al, from University of Arizona Press.
The source of the dichotomy is not known, although there are several theories.
www.msss.com /http/ps/di.html   (393 words)

  
 Capital & Class: Rational Woman: A Feminist Critique of Dichotomy
She examines the gendered duality of these dichotomies and argues for a relational perspective on which to base a new set of feminist concepts that move beyond a dichotomous way of thinking.
With an argument which attacks dichotomy, it is always tempting to apply a reductio ad absurdum and suggest that the person arguing against dichotomy is merely setting up another dichotomy, for instance between that which is dichotomous and that which is not.
On page 37 she links dichotomy specifically to the denigration of women, humanity being defined as opposed both to nature and to femininity.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3780/is_200110/ai_n8954795   (909 words)

  
 ZetaTalk: Increasing Dichotomy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This dichotomy also exists where such worlds have matured in their spiritual orientations to the point where switching is no longer anticipated, but the lessons of the higher densities are continuing and the orientations are sufficiently segregated.
This type of dichotomy will, of course, exist on the Earth during the Transformation period, which is now.
Increasingly, the orientations separate of their own accord, as those in the Service-to-Other expel those who are not truly in the Service-to-Other and those in the Service-to-Self find compliance with the desire for a rigid pecking order only among those also in the Service-to-Self.
www.zetatalk.com /orientat/O32.HTM   (554 words)

  
 Harvard University Press/The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays/Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hume's and much 20th-century moral philosophy contrasted moral with factual judgments and led people to conclude that the former, unlike the latter, are subjective in the sense of not being rationally supportable.
Putnam's The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy is a tour de force by a great philosopher.
The collection as a whole thus fulfils two rather different functions: (a) bringing new and original arguments to bear against the erroneous thesis that there is a dichotomy between fact and value, and (b) guiding the reader around the contours of the issue and pointing to interesting relevant arguments developed elsewhere by others.
www.hup.harvard.edu /reviews/PUTCOL_R.html   (231 words)

  
 The Dichotomy in Chiropractic | Fred H. Barge, DC, PhC
Those not well-schooled in chiropractic's history, and unfortunately that is the majority of the chiropractors today who graduated after 1960 (which, by the way, is the majority of chiropractors), do not understand how our dichotomy came upon us.
The dichotomy began immediately, as from chiropractic's very inception D.D. Palmer's first classes included allopaths, homeopaths, eclectics, osteopaths, etc. Now, what would you do if you were a doctor degreed in another health care discipline, who had just taken D.D. Palmer's chiropractic course?
If we all practiced as the founder taught, wrote, and lectured there would be no dichotomy today.
www.chiroweb.com /archives/10/04/11.html   (576 words)

  
 Dichotomy of Action-Potential Backpropagation in CA1 Pyramidal Neuron Dendrites -- Golding et al. 86 (6): 2998 -- ...
we hypothesize that the observed dichotomy in dendritic action-potential
At distances >300 µm from the soma (shaded area), a dichotomy in the amplitude of the 1st action potentials becomes apparent (left), with 19/20 cells exhibiting either strong (>40 mV amplitude) or weak propagation (<25 mV amplitude).
Dichotomy in backpropagation efficacy is not associated with systematic differences in morphology.
jn.physiology.org /cgi/content/full/86/6/2998   (7797 words)

  
 YLA Research Report: Table A2
The dichotomy Age at First Out-of-Home Placement and the dichotomy Prior State Placement were each multiplied by 2 prior to summation.
The dichotomy Felonies Against Persons and the dichotomy Historical Violent Non-Sex Crimes were each multiplied by 2 prior to summation.
Victim of Neglect (a dichotomy indicating that youth was alleged to be the victim of neglect)
criminaljustice.state.ny.us /crimnet/ojsa/yla/tablea2.htm   (1181 words)

  
 cMusicWeb.com: Dichotomy B
It would be way cooler for me to say right now that I copied Dichotomy A and B to an iPod and let this review flow from there, but I'm going to play it straight and not violate one of the thou shalt nots.
It's true that both Dichotomy albums are a bit derivative, but hip-hop itself has always adhered to the Sonicflood school of music making anyway, and B is a tour de force nonetheless.
Existing or upcoming albums from the Tunnel Rats crew and marsILL have and will continue to push the envelope as well, but Dichotomy B is the benchmark.
cmusicweb.com /hiphop/grits/dichotomyb.shtml   (476 words)

  
 Dichotomy of Emotions
Speaking of dichotomy, you are reading this in January; however, as I write this, it is still several weeks before Christmas.
Those of us celebrating the spiritual aspects of the holiday suffer from the dichotomy of the joy of the Savior's birth with the sorrow of turmoil in the world.
Those of us celebrating the secular aspects of the holiday suffer from the dichotomy of the delight in spending time with family and friends versus the need to delve into the commercialism and hustle of crowded stores and mall parking lots.
www.massagetoday.com /archives/2004/01/08.html   (836 words)

  
 False dichotomy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In a false dichotomy (also called a false dilemma, either or, fl or white, the missing middle) you are presented with two choices, when in fact there are more than two choices.
The dichotomy can also be in the form of a question, which not only restricts choices but also forces a decision.
The text on these pages may be freely copied, distributed and posted as long as my name, this statement and the URL (http://info-pollution.com/false.htm) are included.
info-pollution.com /false.htm   (290 words)

  
 NashvilleRage.com: > Grits: Dichotomy A - Rage Cd Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
There was a time when Grits would have been categorically considered nothing other than Christian hip-hop, but with Dichotomy A, their music perhaps sounds better suited for the party than the pulpit.
Remaining true to "the word" and spreading its respective tenets can be a challenge in an industry and genre that glorify money, materialism, sex and general unseemliness.
As Dichotomy A finishes playing in my CD changer, I am ambivalent and somewhat conflicted about what I have heard.
www.nashvillerage.com /music/cds/cds2004/072904-Grits.shtml   (313 words)

  
 MusiChristian.com: Grits - Dichotomy B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Dichotomy B is album #2 in a series of 2 albums that GRITS is releasing this year.
Dichotomy A & B would have been historic if it had been a Double CD.
Dichotomy A was just awesome, and Art of Translation was even better.
www.musichristian.com /refer/stpaulyouth/PRODUCT=154531   (754 words)

  
 Molecular basis for the dichotomy in Plasmodium falciparum adhesion to CD36 and chondroitin sulfate A -- Gamain et al. ...
This dichotomy is associated with parasite sequestration to microvasculature
The presence of a CD36-binding CIDR1 interferes with this conformation, ablating the capacity of the DBL
The dichotomy in adhesion is important to avoid immune responses against (CSA-binding) placental isolates before pregnancy, maintaining this set of structurally and functionally unique PfEMP-1s.
www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/99/15/10020   (2899 words)

  
 Crosswalk.com - GRITS' "Dichotomy A" Is Good to the Last Rhyme
On "Dichotomy A," the chips fall mostly in favor of Stacy “Coffee” Jones and Teron “Bonafide” Carter.
Diving into "Dichotomy" will only reveal more riches, as it boasts dense (but not daunting) melodic layers and lyrics that broach subjects from gangbanging (“Gutter Boy”) to staking a claim for rap respect in Christ (“Bobbin’ Bouncin”).
Thankfully, "Dichotomy" avoids the sin of “more is more.” Its 45-plus minutes are just enough, suggesting that maybe the best things come in split packages.
www.crosswalk.com /fun/music/1275836.html   (511 words)

  
 GRITS - Dichotomy A
Way before Gotee announced that they'd celebrate a decade of GRITS goodness with the separate releases of Dichotomy A and B, fans and hip-hop heads already were in a dichotomy of their own.
In a move that calls to mind the live-band feel of The Roots, the pensive "Get Down" brims with Philly soul style; the chill track is a big departure for the two emcees, but it suits them well since it allows their rhymes about humility and "the art of getting down" to take center stage.
The diversity of Dichotomy A and its exploitation of the duo's roots render it a solid album, but one wishes they'd retread the thoughtfulness of their glorious, old-school choruses.
www.christianitytoday.com /music/reviews/2004/dichotomya.html   (1005 words)

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