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Encyclopedia > False compromise

A false compromise (also known as the gray fallacy) is a logical fallacy: X and Y are opposite alternatives. So Z, a middle path, is the best choice. This fallacy is very similar to argumentum ad temperantiam (middle ground). A logical fallacy may mean nothing more than a fallacy or it may mean an error in deductive reasoning, i. ... The middle ground (also called argumentum ad temperantiam) between extreme points of view is often described as the logical place to find truth. ...


Even when no particular compromise has been presented, the fallacy can hold sway when a group tries to reach consensus: X and Y are opposite alternatives. So there must exist some Z, a middle path, which is the best choice. Consensus has two common meanings. ...


Examples

  • Bob is moving to a new city in order to take a job. If he gets an apartment in the city center, it will be too expensive for him to afford a car, but he will be able to walk to work and most things he needs. On the other hand, Bob could move to the country, where he could afford a car which he could drive into the city for work and services, but he will spend a great deal of time commuting. Unable to decide between the two alternatives, Bob compromises by moving to the suburbs, where it is too expensive to own a car, but where nothing is within walking distance.
  • Jim wants to go north, Fred wants to go south. West or east must be the right choice.
  • An organization is deciding where to build its new headquarters. One bloc wants to build it on the east side of the river. Another bloc wants to build it on the west side of the river. The building should therfore be built on an island in the river.

Rush Limbaugh. ... Global mean surface temperatures 1856 to 2004 Mean temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming is an increase in the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans. ... Environmentalist is a person or a group that supports any goal of the environmental movement. ... Montreal skyline at night For alternate meanings see city (disambiguation) A city is an urban area that is differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. ... A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ... Commuting is the process of travelling between a place of residence and a place of work. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ...

External link

  • ChangingMinds.org

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Eurocommunism: a new form of reformism [Sam Marcy -- 1978]: TRUE AND FALSE HISTORICAL COMPROMISE (1738 words)
This is not a historical compromise with the bourgeoisie.
But what you have in mind is a compromise on the basis of the existing social system, your social system in which you hold all the levers of power and we are given the role of mere officials obliged to put fires out wherever the general anger of the masses rises into explosive proportions.
The necessity of the masses going through the electoral experience of the historical compromise should be all the more understandable to genuine revolutionary elements in Italy precisely because the presentation of the historical compromise concept does not represent a sudden and violent breach by the PCI leaders from the past.
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