Binary schematization’s completeness claim masks the imposition behind any dichotomy

Evidence

Voluntary military service, however, is one of its purest examples in our time. The intellectually and socially highest person may subordinate himself to a non-commissioned officer and actually tolerate a treatment which, if it really concerned his ego and feeling of honor, would move him to the most desperate reactions. But he is aware that he must bow before an objective technique, not as an individual personality, but only as an impersonal link requiring such discipline. This awareness, at least in many cases, prevents a feeling of degradation and oppression from arising. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 764 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

To put it in a formula, this fallacy occurs whenever it is argued that because x and y belong to the same class or possess a common property, they are identical. — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 848 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Binary codes unite opposites by regulated negation rather than merely separating them — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 662; Subordination stops being degrading once framed as impersonal technique — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 764; Treating shared class membership as complete identity causes invalid reasoning — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 848 (+16 more)

Related

• Subordination stops being degrading once framed as impersonal technique (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Subordination stops being degrading once framed as impersonal technique #exemplifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 764
• Treating shared class membership as complete identity causes invalid reasoning #exemplifies (0.70) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 848