Andreas Angelidakis' 2006 work "Philosophy Pattern Table and Chairs" is on display at the "Nearly Natural" exhibition, which runs through Dec. 12 at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park. Contributor Thomas S.

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 ...

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 ...

I just stepped out of a freezing plunge, and the shock is a good reminder: cold isn’t simple. Neither is almost anything else that matters. My view is blunt: either-or thinking is wrecking our ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have an election coming up pitting Republicans against Democrats. There’s war in the Middle East between Israel and various Iranian-backed entities. People around the world argue about whether we ...

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 ...

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 ...