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38: 895: 284: 248:. Such arguments can be refuted by showing that the disjunctive premise — the "horns of the dilemma" — does not in fact hold, because it presents a false dichotomy. You are asked to accept "A or B", but counter by showing that is not all. Successfully undermining that premise is called "escaping through the horns of the dilemma". 374: 155:
A dilemma is often phrased as "you must accept either A, or B", where A and B are propositions each leading to some further conclusion. In the case where this is true, it can be called a "dichotomy", but when it is not true, the dilemma constitutes a
594:, Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric Vol. 28, No. 4 (Autumn 2010), pp. 363–383, at p. 364. Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. DOI: 10.1525/rh.2010.28.4.363 867:, Oxford University Press, p. 15, 72. See also Michael Bohlander, ‘Of Shipwrecked Sailors, Unborn Children, Conjoined Twins and Hijacked Airplanes—Taking Human Life and the Defence of Necessity’ (2006) 70 The Journal of Criminal Law 147. 366:, whether a government official could intentionally kill innocent civilians by shooting down a hijacked airplane that would otherwise have crashed into a football stadium, killing tens of thousands. 331:, as did casuistry itself. Another approach, with legal roots, is to lay emphasis on particular features present in a given case: in other words, the exact framing of the dilemma. 877: 864: 343:, to describe a situation where a legal subject is confronted with two or more legal norms that the legal subject cannot simultaneously comply with. 850:
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appear to be inconsistent, an actor confronts a dilemma in terms of which principle to follow. This kind of moral case study is attributed to
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philosopher whose works survive in fragmentary form, making the origins of the technique in philosophy imponderable. It was established with
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in a dilemma: If he climbs to escape the guard dog he will face the man's wrath, but if he drops to avoid the man, the dog will attack him.
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Examples include contradictory contracts where one clause directly negates another clause, or conflicts between fundamental (e.g.
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offering two possibilities, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable. The possibilities are termed the
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Logic and Its Applications: 7th Indian Conference, ICLA 2017, Kanpur, India, January 5-7, 2017, Proceedings
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confronted a legal dilemma when determining, in connection with proceedings relating to the German
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Valentin Jeutner: Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law: The Concept of a Legal Dilemma
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usage, but distinguishing the dilemma from other kinds of predicament as a matter of usage.
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In law, Valentin Jeutner has argued that the term "legal dilemma" could be used as a
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did not immediately take hold, preference being given to the established Latin term
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Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law: The Concept of a Legal Dilemma
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Irresolvable Norm Conflicts in International Law: The Concept of a Legal Dilemma
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in the 15th century, in later versions of his logic text traditionally called
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Dilemmatic arguments : towards a history of their logic and rhetoric
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Dilemmatic arguments : towards a history of their logic and rhetoric
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Dilemmatic arguments : towards a history of their logic and rhetoric
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applied to the upsetting of dilemmatic reasoning. With the support of
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Problem requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives
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of sounding (or not sounding) an alarm for a possible earthquake
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in dilemma form, but that may have been to conform with what
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in the 16th century became tainted with the accusation of
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Jonsen, Albert R.; Toulmin, Stephen Edelston (1988).
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Jonsen, Albert R.; Toulmin, Stephen Edelston (1988).
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In international law, it has been suggested that the
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The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning
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Index

Dilema
Dilemma (disambiguation)

William Ewart Gladstone
Ancient Greek
δίλημμα
proposition
problem
clichéd
Gabriel Nuchelmans
Lorenzo Valla
Greek
George of Trebizond
neologism
Cicero
Juan Luis Vives
false dichotomy
fallacy
sophism
Nicholas Udall
rhetorical device
Hermogenes of Tarsus
C. S. Peirce
excluded middle
propositional logic
rules of inference
constructive dilemma
destructive dilemma
Melissus of Samos
Presocratic

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