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Ok I just looked up the phrase false dichotomy, apparently doesn't mean what I thought it meant, probably would have been better said as "the two are not mutual
by nicholast 5y ago
Ok I just looked up the phrase false dichotomy, apparently doesn't mean what I thought it meant, probably would have been better said as "the two are not mutually exclusive", still point holds.
- WillDaSilva 5y ago"False dichotomy" implies more than just the fact that "the two are not mutually exclusive". It further implies that the speaker in question has implied that the two are mutually exclusive, when they are in fact not.
- chaosite 5y agoAnd it further implies that the speaker has suggested that the two options are the only possible ones, when in fact there are other possibilities. But the person you're correcting seems to have already noticed that, and has corrected themselves.