{"id":1319,"date":"2017-03-27T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2017-03-27T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:06:08","slug":"binary-choices-000000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/by-rick\/binary-choices-000000\/","title":{"rendered":"Binary Choices: 000000"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My thinking process gravitated to and was influenced by a class in propositional logic, which I took in ninth grade. The underlying assumption\/proposition is that a thing cannot be both<\/strong> true and not true<\/strong>. For example, a thing cannot be both black AND not-black; white AND not-white.<\/p>\n

That puts me to thinking whenever I hear statements which\u00a0fly in the face of this fundamental concept. In my role as director of communications, I’m sensitive to being sure that the messages I manage are internally consistent; that they faithfully and accurately promote the “brand”; and<\/em> that they logically make sense.<\/p>\n

It has come into my head recently to try to formulate the foundations of a workable worldview by identifying some binary issues which\u00a0cannot be both true and not-true. If you will, there are situations where we must choose\u00a0either-or but not both<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Dichotomy: Of all possible conditions, the criteria for condition “A” exclude all other conditions.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many “it-seems-to-make-sense-to-me” arguments which people maintain, don’t actually make sense under this kind of scrutiny. By\u00a0identifying some of these dichotomies, I will discuss what I view as ridiculous conclusions which do not follow from initial assumptions or positions. (If something is condition A, then it cannot also be condition not-A.)<\/em> I will then attempt\u00a0to lay out a reasonable path for assessing these conclusions and their implications.<\/p>\n

Over time, this will become a periodic series of binary choices, through which I will (eventually) collect the threads of a defensible worldview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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