Word of the Week #6

1. Dichotomy

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 possibility, such as being pregnant--you can't be a little bit pregnant; it's either/or).

4. Noun - separation of different or contradictory things, a separation into two divisions that differ widely from or contradict each other

5. The classroom had become a dichotomy during the debate on raising the legal drinking age.