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Socrates’ false dichotomy and paradox
Hollywood movies about the mafia often portrait threats, intimidation and extortion. In those movies, criminals attempt to extort money from the victims by putting them in front of a false dichotomy. The victims are given the choice of paying for fake insurance or having their shop burned down. At the end of those movies, the…
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