Sentences with phrase «false dichotomy»

"False dichotomy" refers to a situation where only two options are presented as choices, but in reality, there are more alternatives or possibilities that have been excluded or ignored. It mistakenly portrays a situation as a choice between two extreme or opposite options, overlooking any middle ground or other options that may exist. Full definition
Aren't you creating false dichotomy between the written Word and the Word Made Flesh?
People are drawing lines in the sand and creating false dichotomies where there don't really need to be any.
Conclusion: This represents a type of false dichotomy in that it excludes a third option, which is that there is insufficient investigation and therefore insufficient information to prove the proposition satisfactorily to be either true or false
You may well feel there are false dichotomies here — we'd love to hear examples where schools manage to combine both!
Politics or culture is indeed a classic false dichotomy.
Furthermore, this culture war has presented people like Justin, and people like Cindy — a mom who contacted Justin in a panic after learning her son was gay, knowing that her church was the last place she could turn if she wanted her son to feel loved and supported — with a dangerous false dichotomy: It's gays vs. Christians.
The primary problem with all of Kaiser's answers, however, is that he poses false dichotomies.
Debates about the merits of these models, though, can fall into a trap of erecting false dichotomies that simply don't have to pose tradeoffs to schools considering going blended.
Weigel constructs false dichotomies between the courageous, uncompromising leaders that are now needed and the bureaucratic, «episcopal discussion group moderator [s]» who have allegedly fed the crisis.
I would add that words can also be powerful, so we should avoid false dichotomies.
Your statement is an amazing false dichotomy... but then again... ok, maybe that is all Kirk can offer.
But after that, it is my opinion that you set up a very false dichotomy.
«Opinion polls promote false dichotomies,» said Tippett, a former Fulbright Scholar who earned a history degree from Brown University and a Master's degree in divinity from Yale.
In reforming Iowa's public school system, he intends to get beyond the prevalent false dichotomies, such as «cash for test scores versus step - and - lane compensation» and «due process versus random firing.»
But Kirp's piece draws an unfortunate false dichotomy between factors that need not be at odds: markets versus schools, businesses versus human beings.
And, in today's highly polarized political environment, it also runs the risk of being falsely pigeonholed into one of education's many false dichotomies, such as the age - old pedagogical debate between content knowledge and skills acquisition.
The alternatives of either shocking a dog or getting bitten by a snake is an overly simplistic false dichotomy and a fallacy put forth by shock proponents meant to foment fear in caring pet parents.
All of which typically sends false dichotomies — theory - practice, «real world» - «ivory tower», Pericles - plumberPericles and the plumber [by] W. L. Twining.
Let me now move to the other false dichotomy I want to deal with.
This represents a type of false dichotomy in that it excludes a third option, which is that there is insufficient investigation and therefore insufficient information to prove the proposition satisfactorily to be either true or false.
We can waste a lot of time creating false dichotomies.
Actually, that is a classic false dichotomy, both could be true.
I can personally testify to the fact that, if evolution is presented to college students as being incompatible with their Christian faith, there is a good chance that many of those students will walk away from their faith later on in life, having been presented with a dangerous false dichotomy.
«We believe this is a false dichotomy,» Ryan says.
Instead of viewing this as a false dichotomy, it's time for the brick and mortar store to adapt to the digital world to assure that it keeps up.
Ludwin: So I think there's this false dichotomy that's pretty popular at conferences like Davos where you hear — you hear many different languages at Davos.
So yeah, I think it's a false dichotomy.
Asking «Should I do A or B» may be a false dichotomy.
I think it's a false dichotomy.
There has long been a false dichotomy that a state is either worker - friendly or business - friendly.
Many company leaders avoid giving to charity because they draw a false dichotomy between being prosperous as a company and being generous.
My fundamental beef is that Kevin's work presents a false dichotomy between central bankers taking a vow of silence and central bankers speaking about political developments in an appropriate manner.
This is the false dichotomy I was talking about.
You put this question into the false dichotomy of «are we broken or is the universe» The universe simply is.
not a false dichotomy... you may object to the terminology but your answer says * we * are the ones who are broken (or at least our perception of reality).
We have set up a false dichotomy where one side HAS to be right and one side HAS to be wrong when we don't know 100 % either way for sure.
But if the anti-theist was ever guilty of a false dichotomy, perhaps it is most obvious here.
Worse, the author presents a false dichotomy in that she compares «hearing God» with schizophrenia, as if only the latter is delusional.
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