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It is, perhaps, understandable that psychiatrists are abnormally afraid of losing their own minds, but it seems that their patients are more in need of friendship than professionally sterilized therapy.
Also called false dichotomy, [fallacy](https://www.logicalfallacies.org/) of bifurcation, black-or-white [fallacy](https://www.logicalfallacies.org/), the false delamma presents two alternative states as the only possibilities when more possibilities may exist.
Example of False Dilemma
• You are either with me or against me.
• Either you buy me this toy, or you don't love me. (Child saying to a parent)
False Dilemma
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The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich in inward.
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
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