An act or judgment that is misguided or wrong. A schoolmate nags you to join them in a bad habit such as smoking. Synonyms for poor decision-making include poor choice, bad choice, error, fumble, miscalculation, misjudgement, misjudgment, misstep, mistake and poor decision. Phrasing that implies 2 options (dilemma, dichotomy, black and white) may be substituted with other number-based nouns, such as a "false trilemma" if something is reduced to only 3 options, instead of 2.įalse dilemma can arise intentionally, when fallacy is used in an attempt to force a choice (such as, in some contexts, the assertion that "if you are not with us, you are against us"). Here's a list of similar words from our thesaurus that you can use instead. The options may be a position that is between two extremes (such as when there are shades of grey) or may be completely different alternatives. synonyms Sentences with phrase «to make bad decisions» (see phrases) So we made the bad decisionto hold her hand to soothe her only for that month and we promised that as soon as visits were gone we would let her cry out again. The opposite of this fallacy is argument to moderation. Synonyms for DIFFICULT: challenging, tough, hard, rigorous, demanding, formidable, complicated, heavy Antonyms of DIFFICULT: easy, simple, light, soft, cheap. Sometimes the choices we have are just current states of a situation, and we lack knowledge to see there is really no choice.Ī false dilemma (also called false dichotomy, black-and/or-white thinking, the either-or fallacy, the fallacy of false choice, the fallacy of exhaustive hypotheses, the fallacy of the false alternative or the fallacy of the excluded middle) is a type of informal fallacy that involves a situation in which limited alternatives are considered, when in fact there is at least one additional option. There is always a third, more reliable option. A dilemma with two options that are both wrong.
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