Dichotomy
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Dichotomy
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A dichotomy is a partition of a whole into two parts (subsets). In other words, this couple of parts must be jointly exhaustive: everything must belong to one part or the other, and
mutually exclusive: nothing can belong simultaneously to both parts. If there is a concept A, and it is split into parts B and not-B, then the parts form a dichotomy: they are mutually exclusive, since no part of B is contained in not-B and vice versa, and they are jointly exhaustive, since they cover all of A, and t
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Splitting of a whole into exactly two non-overlapping parts; dyadic relations and processes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichotomy
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2024-04-09T16:48:28Z
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