opposites

The analogy is used to show how both debit and credit have a dual and interconnected relationship than the more simplistic notion of being opposites.

My go to example is affirming an appeal, which actually means rejecting an appeal, even though in normal language affirm and reject are basically opposites.

When Pavlovich wrote a second set of poems based on Ying-Yang opposites, it worked about equally well.

It's not like eastern and western medicine are binary opposites, where if one is wrong the other must be right.

It's use relies on all the same implicit threat of state sanctioned violence and its infrastructure as its closed proprietary opposites.

It is pretty obvious that beat merely meant 'mutually exclusive' when he wrote 'opposites'.

I'm just saying that malnutrition and height are not polar opposites on some spectrum of good health.

These are not necessarily opposites and you shouldn't think of it that way.

Those are all opposites programmers should gain experience with at some point.

I posted my comment in a hope to find others with a similar feeling/experience about self-help vs well-being as opposites.

With NeXT, that includes the 'polar opposites' of Jobs and Stallman.

Or the law of opposites: you can't have hot without cold.

They are exact opposites of each other: higher numbers are "better" for approximation accuracy, at least in the sense they were used in the course.

>compounding that by referring to women as "girls" Linguistically boys and girls, men and women, and guys and gals are not true opposites.

None of those are "stupid" and their opposites aren't "smart".

"Free speech" and "eliminating crap" are complete opposites.