Thursday, August 31, 2006

Logical fallacies

"The logical fallacy of false choice is a correlative-based fallacy in which options are presented as being exclusive when they may not be. It is often used to obscure the likelihood of one option or to reframe an argument on the user's terms."  Wikipedia

For example, take Darth Cheney's most recent bit of jingoistic saber-rattling:

"We have only two options in Iraq--victory or defeat."

Gosh we must avoid..defeat! That would be horrible! How could we live with..defeat? Our ONLY option is VICTORY!

Ladies and gentlemen, the false choice. 

1 comment:

beepbeepitsme said...

RE: logical fallacy

What Is Evidence?
http://beepbeepitsme.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-is-evidence_07.html