| A false dichotomy is a take-it-or-leave-it choice of opposites, presented as if there was no alternative. |
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| A false dichotomy asserts that there are only two possibilities when, in fact, there are more. |
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| A false dichotomy is often a simple mistake, but it is a sophistical device when used to misrepresent the true choice. |
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| The solution for the plagiarism problem in education is for educators to take steps to dissolve the false dichotomy between academic and disciplinary decisions. |
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| The false dichotomy arises from a failure or an inability to conceive of a genuine space between compulsion and choice, between, in philosophical terms, determinism and voluntarism. |
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| However, this conception of contemporary economies sets up a false dichotomy. |
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| Assessing separately either government performance or aid effectiveness is increasingly a false dichotomy. |
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| So in a way, the split between economic and humanitarian is a bit of a false dichotomy. |
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| Secondly, from time to time, I hear that a false dichotomy is being created between competitiveness and solidarity. |
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| My honourable colleague, the member for Pickering-Scarborough East just explained why that is a false dichotomy, a false choice. |
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| What's strange is that often at the heart of this panic is an entirely false dichotomy. |
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| Many saw this as a false dichotomy, because both fisheries and oceans were of equal importance, and very much related to one another. |
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| That is still an important point because I fear that the government will attempt to create this false dichotomy again. |
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| This is even more worrying because it is precisely because of this false dichotomy that we have lost so far. |
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| I make this distinction because too often, states within these very rooms, have tried to separate and set up a false dichotomy between external and internal self-determination. |
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| If Ed Miliband fails to make it to Number 10 next week, his seduction by Disraeli's false dichotomy in other words, his failure to see and speak to the country as it really is will be one of the reasons why. |
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| In the last two years much has been written and spoken about an alleged conflict between peace-making and justice, which the last two Secretary-Generals and others have accurately described as a false dichotomy. |
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| In crime prevention theory, a false dichotomy is often presented between solutions involving law enforcement, which are viewed as short-term correctives, and crime prevention, which is portrayed as a long term project. |
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| This false dichotomy has been set up by States in order to confine indigenous peoples right to self-determination to one of domestic or State prescription. |
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| Balancing conflicting values too often means being led into the false dichotomy of choosing one value over another rather than crafting a new view of the future which integrates seemingly conflicting values. |
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| There is no false dichotomy between consumer policy on the one hand and the single market on the other and I think this is the first paper that brings it out fairly clearly. |
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| This is a false dichotomy and is a recipe for incoherence, not coherence. |
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| However, this is by and large a false dichotomy because, regardless of the stage of development, most countries have an interest in the cultural industries at all levels. |
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| But, this is to set up a false dichotomy between knowledge and politics. |
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| The ministerial representative specifically said this is a false dichotomy perpetuated repeatedly by Canada to push forward individual rights over collective rights. |
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| Counsel for the Superintendent argued that this was a false dichotomy and that it was quite clear based on the case law that an annuity contract could be used and held in trust or subject to a trust. |
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| Another area in which consensus-building was required during the MTSP period concerns the relative emphasis on access compared to quality in education, essentially a false dichotomy. |
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| The Euthyphro dilemma, although not addressed by that name, is dealt with as a false dichotomy. |
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| The Fallacy of False Dichotomy occurs when a premise of an argument with a disjunction is false because there are other alternatives besides the two presented in the premise. |
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