Lee points out that humans often think in contrasting pairs-true or false, good or bad, useful or useless-and we make a great variety of distinctions and categorizations as we do so. But, according to Lee, "That kind of thinking may be wrong, as there's no set criterion for the dichotomies we produce, and they may be entirely bogus."
李淳陽指出，一般人習慣「對比思考」，像是遠近、真假、好壞、有用沒用等等，並在思考過程中做出種種區隔和多樣化，但「這種思考方式，本身可能就有錯誤，所形成的對比並沒有一定的標準，甚至根本是不存在的。」