Let's distinguish the epistemic from the instrumental. Epistemically, truths can't oppose each other. But instrumentally, different tools can have different str

Let's distinguish the epistemic from the instrumental. Epistemically, truths can't oppose each other. But instrumentally, different tools can have different strengths. For example, merge sort is simple, fast and stable but not in-place, while heapsort is simple, fast and in-place but not stable. Between them lies the deep unsolved problem of designing a simple, fast, stable and in-place sorting algorithm. That's exactly like the dichotomies described in the post: two kinds of effective leaders, two kinds of organizations, etc.