"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.
of you have sat, and perhaps thought, with us!
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RE: logical fallacy
What Is Evidence?
http://beepbeepitsme.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-is-evidence_07.html
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