0 a difference between two completely opposite ideas or things:
There is often a dichotomy between what politicians say and what they do.
1 the division of two things that are completely different:
This draws an obvious dichotomy between marine and freshwater systems.
Foucault historicises this process but in doing so comes across a second aporia of homogeneity combined with succession, in particular the succession of dichotomies.
Nevertheless, the new planning-control dichotomy he proposes, though a valuable advance, is itself an oversimplification of what must be a multi-channel system.
We note that both parts of the dichotomy can be realized.
Studies on social dysfunction in schizophrenia using the positive/negative symptom dichotomy have not found specific associations between these domains.
This dichotomy entails an exclusive separation between the realms of nature and culture.
Unlike the basic set-theoretic concepts, these subgraphs do not reflect the aforementioned dichotomy in a fully symmetric way.
Consequently, neither alternative hypothesis is strongly supported, but to some degree this may be related to the very crude dichotomy we use when categorising programmes.