Word of the Week #5

1. Bifurcating

2. The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics by Nina Rosenstand
Rosenstand, N. (2009). The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics. San Diego: McGrawHill.

3. And if you claim that "it is my way or the highway," then you are bifurcating--you are creating a false dichotomy (unless, of course, we're really talking about a situation with no third possiblity, such as being pregnant--you can't be a little bit pregnant; it's either/or).

4. trasitive and intransitive verb/adjective - divide in two, to be split or branched off into two parts, or split something into two parts.

5. When discussing politics in class, the teacher noticed that the class was bifurcating, those pro-choice and those pro-life.