binary opposition

The idea of binary opposition is essential to Cixous' position on language.

An example of a binary opposition is the male-female dichotomy.

He believed that the binary opposition between speech and writing is a form of logocentrism.

A major theory associated with Structuralism was binary opposition.

Binary opposition is an important concept of structuralism, which sees such distinctions as fundamental to all language and thought.

In structuralism, a binary opposition is seen as a fundamental organizer of human philosophy, culture, and language.

Mankind exists in binary opposition to the Earth.

"Post-modernism, if it means anything, has to do with a breakdown of binary oppositions.

Because markets rest on the rule of law, the relationship between markets and regulation is not a binary opposition but a continuum.

"From the very start," he wrote, "the process of visual perception makes use of binary oppositions."

"I tend to think in binary oppositions," he said, a quality exemplified by "Nice Work."

It's a spectrum, not a binary opposition, even in humans; both are always active in a drakensis.

There is a model of word-meaning (called componential analysis) which depends on binary oppositions.

Binary opposition is the system by which, in language and thought, two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another.

Are such attempts at undoing the binary oppositions suggested by that exhibition title still pertinent?

The reduction to a binary opposition is further strengthened because films have to appeal to the broadest possible audience to guarantee financial success.

It is as if containment, in reinstating nature over culture - that most fundamental and violent of binary oppositions - says too much about both.

Let us go back to the claim that the binary oppositions of componential semantics are natural and innate.

Plato's Gorgias agrees to the binary opposition knowledge vs. opinion" (82).

The relationship of Valjean and Javert is a binary opposition between law and love.

Rather, these binary oppositions melt in a poetic landscape that shies away from providing answers.

I have already had several occasions to remark that binary oppositions are, in Derrida's phrase, violent hierarchies.

It has been argued that the primitive features are innate, and the tendency to make binary oppositions is natural to human cognition.

Another concept was borrowed from the Prague school of linguistics, which employed so-called binary oppositions in their research.