Seems I’ve been accused of a fallacy with respect to my view on politics. I must admit that topic is not my forte but the comment I made could be interpreted as a fallacy. I hope to shed some light on another logical fallacy so we can all try to avoid it.

A false dichotomy is when someone tries to reduce an argument of many possibilities down to only two.  This fallacy can also be used to oversimplify a problem of variation to diametrically opposed opposites like black and white.

In my comments I’ve noted there are really only two political parties in the US. The Democrats and the Republican. This gives you only two choices instead of the reality where there are plenty of other parties. In this case they are the two strongest competitors but it is a fallacy to state they are the only choices.

This fallacy is not restricted to just politics so be on the look out. Most famously a false dichotomy is used by creationist in the argument of intelligent design versus Evolution. They say evolution is not possible so life must have been designed. Jumping to that conclusion creates a false dichotomy. There are many other fallacies creationists use as well so there will be more for me to write about.