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Uncommon card · Science
False dilemma, an Uncommon card
A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 116
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 86,000
Power 116 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
False dilemma quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the False dilemma card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The source of the fallacy lies not in an invalid form of ______ but in a false premise.
Answer
inference. The source of the fallacy lies not in an invalid form of inference but in a false premise. From the False dilemma article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Cache. Cache 120,000 · False dilemma 86,000 · Numerical integration 59,000 · Social theory 40,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The source of the fallacy lies not in an invalid form of inference but in a false premise.
- This premise has the form of a disjunctive claim: it asserts that one among a number of alternatives must be true.
- This disjunction is problematic because it oversimplifies the choice by excluding viable alternatives, presenting the interlocutor with only two absolute choices when in fact there could be many.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The False dilemma article was read about 86,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get False dilemma
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below False dilemma in the power ranking, all domains together.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, False dilemma (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905, artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
