Dichotomies/Dicotomie
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Duration: 25 min.
Wednesday, 18 May 2011 | 00:00 > 00:00 2011-05-19T00:00:00.000Z | Room 1
A dichotomy is any splitting of a whole into exactly two non-overlapping parts, meaning it is a procedure in which a whole is divided into two parts, or in half. It is a partition of a whole (or a set) into two parts (subsets) that are:
- Jointly exhaustive: everything must belong to one part or the other, and
- Mutually exclusive: nothing can belong simultaneously to both parts.
The two parts thus formed are complements. In logic, the partitions are opposites if there exists a proposition such that it holds over one and not the other.
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichotomy
- Jointly exhaustive: everything must belong to one part or the other, and
- Mutually exclusive: nothing can belong simultaneously to both parts.
The two parts thus formed are complements. In logic, the partitions are opposites if there exists a proposition such that it holds over one and not the other.
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichotomy
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