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Old Mar 09, 2017, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by ExplodingSun56 View Post
Sometimes I'll try to give someone another side of looking at things and they'll say I'm thinking black and white but I was just trying to give them another way of looking at it because I thought they where being one sided.
It's really about the "all or nothing" aspect that makes it black and white thinking. It's either one way or another, no in between. Otherwise, it's not black and white thinking. It may be some other kind of disordered thought, but not necessarily black and white thinking.

Your example of 2+2=4 is not black and white thinking. That's just math.
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