False dilemma
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A false dilemma (also called false dichotomy, the either-or fallacy, fallacy of false choice, black-and-white thinking or the fallacy of exhaustive hypotheses) is a type of logical fallacy that involves a situation in which only two alternatives are considered, when in fact there are additional options (sometimes shades of grey between the extremes). For example, "It wasn't medicine that cured Ms. X, so it must have been a miracle."
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See also
- Bivalence
- Correlative-based fallacies
- Degrees of truth
- Fuzzy logic
- Half-truth
- Hobson's choice
- Law of excluded middle
- Love-hate relationship
- Multi-valued logic
- Nolan chart
- Nondualism
- Obscurantism
- Perspectivism
- Principle of bivalence
- Rogerian argument
- Sorites paradox
- Two-party system
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