either-or thinking

feeds the mind's craving for simplicity: everything must be either natural or divine.

Recast in definition form from: “… either-or. A phenomenon had to be either natural or divine. …”

Either/Or

Polarization

nuance

elliptic thinking

binary opposition

simplicity

binary

dichotomy

all-or-nothing thinking

associative thinking

calculating

cognition

combinatory play

commemorative thinking

conceptual thinking

creative thinking

critical thinking

crude thinking

daydreaming

evaluation

fantasizing

free-thinking

high-altitude thinking

hyperbolic thinking

identity thinking

independent thinking

institutional thinking

introspection

judgement

lean thinking

looking back

loose thinking

magical thinking

midterm reasoning

non-identity thinking

overanalyzing

overthinking

passionate thinking

passive thinking

poetic thinking

ponder

positive thinking

primitive thinking

prophetic thinking

prospection

racial reasoning

raciological thinking

random thinking

rational thinking

rational thought

rationality

recollecting

reconsidering

reflection

reflective thinking

free thinking

acronyms

anagram

antonym

Back in My Day

binomial

blonde joke

bumper sticker

Chuck Norris

cockney rhyming slang

collective noun

comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

Deep Thoughts

etymology

false attribution

famous last word

glossary

greeting

haiku

home remedy

I like my [x] like I like my [y]

idiom

let's make like a  . . .

life hack

light bulb joke

limerick

mixed metaphor

mnemonic device

murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

ology (the study of)

optical illusion

oxymoron

palindrome

phobia

pickup line

psychological phenomena and effects

reimagining the x

riddle

seen here

slang

someone should invent

stupid law

superlative

superstition

symbolism

there's a word for that

things that look like other things

Thomasson hyperart

toast (speech)

Tom Swifty

tongue twister

trolley problem

untranslatable word

wacky wares

weather lore

WTF origins

either or thinking, n.All

either or thinking