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	False dilemma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The logical fallacy of false dilemma, which is also known as fallacy of the excluded middle, false dichotomy, either/or dilemma or bifurcation, involves a situation in which two alternative points of view are held to be the only options, when in reality there exist one or more alternate options which have not been considered.
		The false dilemma fallacy refers to misuse of the or operator.
		A false dilemma may not necessarily be limited to two choices; it may involve three possibilities, in which case it is known as a trifurcation, or more, in which case the dilemma may be more the result of accidental omission than deliberate intent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/False_dichotomy (280 words)

	spl’s soaplog » Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That is a false dichotomy because in reality the 2 opposing claims are actually interrelated and interdependent, for example a third viewpoint can be that guns make it easier for people to kill people and therefore both can be blamed to some extent.
		A slightly less obvious example of a false dichotomy is to say, “Automation in computers is bad” where the person is coming from the viewpoint that automation in computers is either good or bad, and then insisting that it is one of those.
		False dichotomies are interesting because people use them with some frequency (people have a habit of seeing in fl & white), and once you successfully identify that a person is using a false dichotomy, you can usually collapse their argument easily by pointing out third and fourth (gray) possibilities.
	spl.haxial.net /weblog/index.php?cat=7 (1428 words)

	False Dichotomy
		A false dichotomy is a dichotomy that is not jointly exhaustive (there are other alternatives), or that is not mutually exclusive (the alternatives overlap), or that is possibly neither.
		A false dichotomy is typically used in an argument to force your opponent into an extreme position -- by making the assumption that there are only two positions.
		Some false dichotomies depend on a misunderstanding of one or both positions, such as the theory vs. practice dichotomy, or the moral vs. practical dichotomy, or the mind vs. body dichotomy.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?FalseDichotomy (659 words)

	The False Dichotomy and Narrative Journalism
		In the end, common territory is rarely found, often because the will to discover it amid the tyranny of the false dichotomy vanishes in the death of listening.
		A false dichotomy of the moment is one that pits narrative against traditional methods of news writing.
		This false dichotomy of information and narrative can be framed anew, transformed into a spectrum of useful possibilities from which all good news writing can emerge.
	www.nieman.harvard.edu /reports/00-3NRfall/False-Dichotomy.html (1130 words)

	Bad Moves entry
		A false dichotomy presents two options as though these exhausted all the possibilities, when in fact there are other choices available.
		Indeed, when Bush repeated the dichotomy a few weeks later, in the context of a crackdown on terrorist finances, again the main message seemed to be that turning a blind eye to terrorism counted as being against America in its fight against it.
		America makes the untruth of the false dichotomy true by deciding that it will treat all those who are not with her as being against her, whether they see themselves in that way or not.
	www.butterfliesandwheels.com /badmovesprint.php?num=14 (668 words)

	Meatball Wiki: FalseDichotomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Those situations or categorizations that are not dichotomies, but are cast as such, are false dichotomies.
		The use of false dichotomies is a sign of sloppy thinking or rhetorical excess (or, perhaps, something else--saying it could only be one or the other would be a false dichotomy :-)
		The inability to detect a false dichotomy arises, perhaps, out of a lack of imagination or an oversensitive sense of the absurd in the person generating the dichotomy.
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?FalseDichotomy (122 words)

	The Black-or-White Fallacy
		For this reason, this fallacy is sometimes called "false" or "bogus" dilemma.
		So, while an argument with a false premiss is unsound, it is usually not considered fallacious.
		However, when a disjunctive premiss is false for specifically logical reasons, or when the support for it is based upon a fallacy, then the argument commits the Black-or-White Fallacy.
	www.fallacyfiles.org /eitheror.html (415 words)

	False Dichotomies
		A dichotomy is defined as "division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions".
		An example of a dichotomy that isn't mutually exclusive is the moral/practical dichotomy.
		Again Rand attacked this as a false dichotomy, showing that not only can the moral and the practical overlap, but that they should.
	solohq.com /Articles/Rowlands/False_Dichotomies.shtml (699 words)

	People v. Profits: A False Dichotomy? - Business Law Journal - UC Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The baseline liability standard of those laws is contained in Rule 10B-5, which states that a seller of securities may not use a false or misleading statement or omission of a material fact in connection with the sale of a security.
		These are broad terms, but we all recognize that you can’t tell a buyer that a company’s profits are going up when in fact they are going down and you can’t fail to tell the market that the company is about to lose its license to do business.
		Short of egregious examples of false and misleading conduct, there are a number of areas where behavior is questionable.
	bizlawjournal.ucdavis.edu /article/533 (2382 words)

	The Schmidt Report: What is a False Dichotomy? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A false dichotomy is a statement or implication that two things, which are generally recognized as opposites, are impossible to moderate, balance, or co-exist.
		To cite another example of a false dichotomy- the Klu Klux Klan and Aryan Nations- two anti-Jew, anti-Black, anti-Catholic, anti-[anything that isn't white, fat, and protestant] hate groups, were against the war in Iraq.
		The reason they cite is that the war was fought to help out the nation of Israel, and since Israel is seen by their paranoid minds as being the epitome of the "Jewish takeover," anything that helps out Israel is contrary to their cause.
	dichotomousthought.blogspot.com /2004/07/what-is-false-dichotomy.html (442 words)

	False Dichotomy logical fallacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A dichotomy is evaluated on a premise that only two alternatives are possible.
		This is false when other alternatives are in fact possible, which usually is the case.
		When taken as a rhetorical device, this quote has also been attributed by another source to a fallacy which it identifies as Appeal to Gallery, which corresponds to the fallacies listed here as Appeal to Emotion and Appeal to Fear.
	www.sierrafoot.org /soapbox/fallacies/false_dichotomy.html (125 words)

	Darn Floor: Moore vs. Gibson: A False Dichotomy
		I guess I see the Moore vs. Gibson comparisons as a false dichotomy.
		Had Moore's film criticized Jesus, or had Gibson's film been a paean to George W., then I could see how they might be considered competitive visions, but that is not the case.
		Creating this false dichotomy may also put faith and politics in competition, or perhaps equate them in a dangerous way -- as if both filims express extremist views, or both play fast and loose with the truth.
	darnfloor.blogspot.com /2004/12/moore-vs-gibson-false-dichotomy.html (667 words)

	The Atheism Web: Logic & Fallacies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is part of the explanation for urban legends; stories which are verifiably false have been known to circulate as anecdotes for years.
		This is the "fallacy fallacy" of arguing that a proposition is false because it has been presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
		This fallacy is an argument of the form "A implies B, A is false, therefore B is false." The truth table for implication makes it clear why this is a fallacy.
	www.infidels.org /news/atheism/logic.html (5794 words)

	False dichotomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In a false dichotomy (also called a false dilemma, either or, fl or white, the missing middle) you are presented with two choices, when in fact there are more than two choices.
		The dichotomy can also be in the form of a question, which not only restricts choices but also forces a decision.
		The text on these pages may be freely copied, distributed and posted as long as my name, this statement and the URL (http://info-pollution.com/false.htm) are included.
	info-pollution.com /false.htm (290 words)

	Media's (and Moore's) false dichotomy of "liberal" vs. "conservative" for "Fahrenheit" ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As "The Passion" mobilized much of the right by openly courting the conservative Christian audience, Moore's movie is meant to galvanize the left in the final weeks before the nation goes to the ballot box.
		The only way to say that these two movies are ideologically opposed is to overlay the false dichotomoy of U.S. politics.
		Update: Sadly, even Moore himself is propagating the false dichotomy, as quoted by a June 27 CNN story:
	www.underreported.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1336&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (634 words)

	Morality and False Dichotomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A speaker argues that morality is either derived from God or from government, and with this false dichotomy he wins applause and nods of approval from his audience.
		After making his false dichotomy, the speaker calls on those listening to him to pressure government.
		With little effort his audience could imagine this another source of morality: collective agreement and sense of decency.
	www.fsmitha.com /com/dichot.htm (72 words)

	Choosing between A and B? What if the answer is C? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Logicians use the terms false dichotomy or false dilemma to refer to a specific kind of logical fallacy that assumes that there are only two possible answers to a particular question.
		This is a false dichotomy because it implies only two choices.
		These are some of the false dichotomies given to you by vendors.
	techrepublic.com.com /5100-6314-1053226-2.html (796 words)

	Introduction To Activistic Atheism
		A false dichotomy assumes that only two (or only a few) alternatives exist when many alternatives actually exist.
		Carl Sagan brings special attention to a form of false dichotomy that pits short-term goals against long-range goals: "We can't afford programs to feed malnourished children and educate pre-school kids.
		The false cause fallacy assumes that two events are causally connected when they are not.
	www.positiveatheism.org /faq/faq1114.htm (4049 words)

	Stem Cell Research: A False Dichotomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The mainstream media continues to blur the very important distinction between adult stem cell research and embryonic stem cell research, in effect creating a false dichotomy: either you are for stem cell research or you are against stem cell research.
		Since few private investors will risk funding the quest for the "miracle cures" that ESCR may or may not provide, Stevens says scientists who are after fame and wealth are using outrageous promises and gullible celebrities to help them pick the public's pocket.
		Rather than be led by the false claims of ESCR proponents' "junk science," the doctor says the government should put taxpayers' money into ethical research that will bring about the most affordable cures for patients in the quickest time.
	www.shakinandshinin.org /StemCellResearchAFalseDichotomy.html (4021 words)

	AghilhaM - Child's death: Drop the "false dichotomy"
		Then Lena Lawrence adds a letter to the editor that concludes this way: "Religion seems to hinge so much more on muddled mind games than common sense." She makes the same error the Church of the Firstborn does: dividing what should not be separated.
		Call it a "false dichotomy" if you will, or an "unwise split." When people take two things made to be in unity and split them apart, nothing good comes from it.
		In this case, to say as Lena Lawrence does, that a person can seek either medical attention for a disease/injury (natural world) or pray to God for healing (supernatural world) without being hypocritical is plain foolishness.
	www.aghilham.com /news/miracles/20031023.html (530 words)

	FALSE DICHOTOMY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Specialty definitions using "FALSE DICHOTOMY": Ousterhout's false dichotomy.
		Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.
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	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/FALSE+DICHOTOMY (178 words)

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		The general public's understanding is that computer programs are written as "source code" that is human readable and not immediately executable by the machine.
		Object code cannot be read by people; it is a sequence of bytes that encode specific machine instructions that will be executed by the microprocessor when it runs (executes) the program.
		The above statements are not exactly false; they are in fact the usual way of explaining to laymen how a computer works.
	www-2.cs.cmu.edu /~dst/DeCSS/object-code.txt (1426 words)

	FNF: FALSE DICHOTOMIES and IMPROPER POLARIZATION 2001-03-30
		"A dichotomy is a split -- a false dichotomy is a false split.
		False Alternative and False Dilemma are along the same banter, false splits.
		"False Dichotomy, Black and White thinking, Boolean Syndrome, Doughnut, False Alternative, False Dilemma: Possibly the longest set of names to describe one fallacy, Black and White Thinking (the most common) is
	www.hi.is /~joner/eaps/wh_polar.htm (817 words)

	Locusts and Wild Honey » Relational vs Propositional - A False Dichotomy
		Last week I posted an entry entitled “Emerging Knowledge of the Truth.” I wanted to answer one of the responses without leaving it buried in the comments of that post.
		In regard to your questions, your response sounded as if you read a either/or dichotomy into my post.
		I like the Westminster Shorter Catechism which expresses the chief end of man as, “to glorify God and enjoy him forever.” Doctrinal propositions ought to cater to the conflation of these two goals into one.
	elbourne.org /archives/2005/06/06/relational-vs-propositional-a-false-dichotomy (853 words)

	Issues in S and T, Fall 1999, The False Dichotomy: Scientific Creativity and Utility
		There is a third way, well known to the more visionary research managers in government, that deserves to comprise a much more substantial part of the public research investment than it does today.
		We do not have to settle for a dichotomy of Newtonian science and Baconian research (application of existing knowledge on behalf of a sponsor with a specified problem to solve).
		Lewis M. Branscomb is Aetna Professor, emeritus, of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and emeritus director of the school's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program.
	www.nap.edu /issues/16.1/branscomb.htm (3992 words)

	The Open Society Paradox: Breaking the False Dichotomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sebastian Mallaby of the Washington Post has written a compelling argument about the two-sided nature of surveillance.
		This is a rarity these days as the debate is usually presented as a false choice between freedom and security.
		In the article, Mallaby talks about citizens being empowered to watch their leaders through tools like the Internet and camera phones, something I call in my book the "Network of a Million Eyes." Sonia Arrison just made this point in an article earlier this week.
	www.opensocietyparadox.com /mt/archives/000853.html (215 words)

	Logic Discussion Board :: View topic - One Equation All Unknowns
		Generally, when an argument contains a false premiss, the argument is considered to be "unsound," not "fallacious." An exception to this general rule, however, occurs when a disjunctive premiss is false for purely logical reasons.
		Contraries are statements, at most one of which can be true, but all can be false.
		It is impossible for both of those claims to be false.
	www.christianlogic.com /forums/topic491.html&start=60 (1404 words)

	False dilemma : False dichotomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The logical fallacy of false dilemma (also called false dichotomy or excluded middle) is to set up two alternative points of view as if they were the only options, argue against one of them, and thereby conclude that the other must be true.
		As an example of a false dilemma, consider the following argument.
		Either creationism must be true or Darwin's theory of evolution must be true.
	www.explainthis.info /fa/false-dichotomy.html (351 words)

	Publishers Weekly : Science vs. religion: a false dichotomy: new books explore the coexistence of faith and scholarly ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Start / P / Publishers Weekly / November 17, 2003 / Science vs. religion: a false dichotomy: new books explore the coexistence of faith and scholarly skepticism.(Religion Update)
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