Hansen and Charles criticized that while the scale is successful in categorizing people at both ends of the continuum ( exclusively homosexual / heterosexual ) its categorization of bisexuals is driven by a negative definition of bisexuality.
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Stanier also authored an influential textbook, " The Microbial World " . " The Microbial World " played an important role in the promulgation of the concepts of " prokaryote " and " eukaryote " as negative definitions of Bacteria and Archea.
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In the stories " Never Marry a Mexican " and " Woman Hollering Creek ", the female protagonists grapple with these " Mexican icons of sexuality and motherhood that, internalized, seem to impose on them a limited and even negative definition of their own identities as women ".
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However, the positive definition of hacker was widely used as the predominant form for many years before the negative definition was popularized . " Hacker " can therefore be seen as a shibboleth, identifying those who use the technically oriented sense ( as opposed to the exclusively intrusion-oriented sense ) as members of the computing community.
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A couple of editors decided that " negative definitions " ( e . g ., " consensus is not unanimity ", " outer space is that portion of the universe that is not a celestial body ", " inedible substances are not food " ) were ugly . talk ) 19 : 37, 17 August 2010 ( UTC)
