Black And White Logical Fallacy He had such a simplistic way of looking at information that not only does he tend to skew information but he uses what is called the black and white logical fallacy.

Black and white logical fallacy The false dilemma fallacy can also arise simply by accidental omission of additional options rather than by deliberate.

Black and white logical fallacy. Think about each situation to identify whether there really are a limited number of options. Often those categories are of our own creation. Morris engel s with good reason. I prefer black or white fallacy because it best describes the nature of the logical mistake underlying it.

But this fallacy has several aliases. An introduction to informal fallacies 6th edition st. Each is the polar opposite of the other without any shades of gray in between. The black and white logical fallacy has a simple form.

The false dilemma the bogus dilemma either or black and white and bifurcation. This fallacy occurs when an arguer limits the conclusion to only one of two often extreme possibilities either black or white and refuses to acknowledge that some elements of both or a moderate conclusion grey could in fact be a possibility. Here s a button for you. When we fall victim to black and white thinking we have mistakenly reduced an entire spectrum of possibilities down to the two most extreme options.

144 153 6 302 for all of these aliases except black and white fallacy and false dichotomy but including black or white fallacy.