Grammatical Forms

Descriptive Structuralism is frequently referred to as Binarist. This orientation is its strength and 

weakness. The strength resides in elementary calculability, an impersonal, objective, exhausting 

of possibilities: given any A, B pair, however defined, the presence or absence of a value for each,

however defined, can be calculated. With values of + or -  :

  A:   +  -  +  -

  B:  +  +  -  -

  Its weakness is identical with that of Plato’s technique of the Division: in the conceptual world, we rarely know enough about any pair to establish exclusive values beyond the most generic; in the empirical world, factual relations are just as complex.