Binary Contradiction 2

Binary contradiction 2

Binary Contradiction 2

cuadricula binariaIn the first post where I talked about binary contradiction. I wrote about one way to solve the problem of binary thinking. In this post, I write about a second mechanism. Previously, I used this definition  for binaries. Binaries have two requirements. They need to be two elements in opposition to each other. The “on” needs to have the “off” as a binary counterpart.

I want to elaborate on the first section. How can we have two elements but more than two identities? One way to think about this is to imagine two colors, blue and yellow. Now add one drop of blue into a page and add a drop of yellow on top of the blue. The result is a drop of green. Using this line of thinking, we can get a third alternative that arises from the two original binary. This same model a can be used to get at a fourth alternative if we consider that the order of how we combine them matters.

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Binary Contradiction

Binary Contradiction

Binary Contradiction

Here are some binary contradictions of winter.

Since early in life we are thought to think in binaries, good vs bad. Then religion and other cultural elements continue to reiterate the idea of binaries. Our thinking in binaries reaches a point where we cannot start to imagine other alternatives and we have conceptual problems when ideas don’t fit in a binary.

One easy attempt to think outside binaries comes from including the middle grounds. The “maybes” and the “grays” are easy finds but still do not satisfy the appetite for alternates to binaries. A next step could be, the contradiction of binaries. For this, we need to know how do we define binaries?

Binaries have two requirements. They need to be two elements in opposition to each other. The “on” needs to have the “off” as a binary counterpart. This definition of binary gives a road map to create alternatives to binary thinking. The options are 1) to have more than two elements that oppose each other without having a third element to disrupt the “bi” prefix and 2) to contradict the opposition. I will work on the first part on a future post.  So let us talk about the second part of the definition.

A binary contradiction happens when you have a binary opposite, but in the opposite you find the original. One example of a binary opposition from life is beauty and ugliness and the binary contradiction would be when you find beauty in the ugliness.

For this series, I set out to find binary contradictions in the winter urban landscape. Drop a comment down in the section.

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