{"id":548,"date":"2017-01-07T15:34:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T15:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falacias.escepticos.es\/?page_id=548"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:22:38","slug":"falacia-del-falso-dilema","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/falacia-del-falso-dilema\/","title":{"rendered":"False dilemma fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Whenever you are made to choose between two only options: a terrible one and some other one, which you are being tricked into choosing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19neng.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-749 size-full\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19neng.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"oculto\" style=\"visibility: hidden; display: none;\">\n<p id=\"p1\">https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19neng.gif<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<button onclick=\"copiarAlPortapapeles('p1')\">Click here to copy the image for your social network<\/button><\/p>\n<p>Source, <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Falso_dilema\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\nThe false dilemma logical fallacy involves a situation where two ideas are shown as the only possible choices, when, actually, there are other options that have not been considered. Usually, but not always, the presented alternatives are the extremes on a spectrum of possibilities. Instead of such extreme simplifications, it is often more appropriate to consider the full range of options, as in fuzzy logic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong><br \/>\nIf my political party does not get elected, the current situation will turn into chaos, violence and tragedy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To refute it<\/strong><br \/>\nThe fallacy can be dismantled by clearly listing all the other options while supporting why they are viable, preferable choices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever the source is not referenced, both definitions and examples have been extracted from a translation of Jaime Wilson jwilson@bytecr.com based on<em> Stephen\u2019s Guide to the Logical Fallacies<\/em>. Copyright 1995-1998 Stephen Downes. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These texts have been modified by Miguel A. Lerma and now by us <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to adapt them -and those taken from Wikipedia- to our format.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever you are made to choose between two only options: a terrible one and some other one, which you are being tricked into choosing. https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19neng.gif Click here to copy the image for your social network Source, Wikipedia The false dilemma logical fallacy involves a situation where two ideas are shown as the only possible choices, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/548\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}