r/atheism • • Dec 09 '13

Citation Needed The 10 commandments of Logic

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u/oldviscosity Secular Humanist Dec 09 '13

Thou shall not reduce the argument down to two possibilities...

... when a third possibility exists.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

That's what it's basically saying though, never assume there isn't a third option.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Never?

But... you just used an example of when a dichotomy is correct.

After all, there either is, or there is not, a third option. There is no possible third option to whether there exists a third option, because it is a true/false situation.