Skip to content
Eristic
← Field guide

Pressure

False dilemma

Offers two options as if no others existed.

“Either we ban phones completely or we accept that kids will never concentrate.”

How to spot it
“Either X or Y” where the real menu is longer.
How to answer it
Name a third option, or a middle ground, and ask why it's excluded.
Practise against it

Favoured by The Prosecutor · The Closer.