The Problem of Binary Oppositions in Computer Programming

Jacobson saw this as a perfectly empirical phenomenon which could be demonstrated in the phonelaw way young children learn speech. He wasn't at that stage doing more than describing facts or what his so-called primary triangles but for the structuralist anthropologists who are trying to use these sort of ideas analogically these diagrams are simply convenient models. One of the most artificially contrived is Levi Stroz's famous culinary triangle of raw cooked and rotten. The point being that raw is the natural state the transformed state is either transformed by nature when it becomes rotten or transformed by culture when it becomes cooked. Some people find these diagrams helpful for others they are a distraction for others again they provide matters for ridicule