The limits of binary classification? notes

What are the limits on the application of  binary measurement systems?

e.g. logics based on an excluded middle

If we are insistent on applying a binary classification system to  a continuum

especially if we feel we are identified with one pole in an either or situation

we appear to have no choice but to assign an absolute negative value to the other pole.

This is likely to lead to conflict…

It is the product of a lack of wisdom of how measuring systems (relatively simple designed abstract systems logics) 

relate to  the systems to which they are being applied  i.e. often to  complex living systems

The fact that the things being measured are of a type both susceptible to measurement makes them an order of magnitude more similar than they are because of the category applied…?

this relates to queer theory

logical typing 


Refs 


http://research.barcelonagse.eu/tmp/working_papers/528.pdf


Fischer Resolcing the theoretical ambiguities with reference to polarization and conflict.


Kreisberg,Northrup Thorson "Intrractable conflicts and their Transformation"


Schon &Rein

Frame reflection: " toward the resolution of intractable policy controversies" tle: High Technology and Low-income Communities : Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology Author: Schön, Donald A.