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Meanings of double bind in English
Informal fallacy involving falsely limited alternatives, when in fact there is at least one additional option.
Synonyms
Examples for "false dilemma"
Examples for "false dilemma"
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Deciding what you want to do with the rest of your life at 18 is a totally false dilemma.
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In a TV address, President Rousseff described the pitting of funding for the World Cup against funding for education and healthcare as " false dilemma".
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That is a false binary.
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We also reject the false binary choice that you have presented to Parliament between a bad deal and no deal.
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The opposition, meanwhile, must avoid painting a fresh lockdown as a moral good: it will maroon itself on the wrong side of a false binary.
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Even well-meaning defenders of Black mothering depend on these false binaries to support their arguments.
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Any company that suggests otherwise is peddling a false choice, Becerra said.
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I reject this false choice between the PM's deal and 'no deal' chaos.
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Barroso urged countries to avoid the false choice between fiscal stimulus or improved regulation.
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A vote today between the status quo and leaving would be an entirely false choice.
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The present controversy should not result in a false choice between sports or hospital spending.
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There was no middle ground, either for the technology or the sleeper.
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We want them to reset the service… There is no middle ground.
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There is no grey area there, no middle ground nor ambiguity.
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There's no middle ground, no short cuts-especiallywhen you're running against Hillary Clinton.
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I mean there's no middle ground for us, the town has simply shut.
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Plibersek says there is a false dichotomy between more funding and school reforms.
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This is a false dichotomy - an ideal climate is a stable one.
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This false dichotomy is straight from the cult of mindless optimism.
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Kobach: There's a false dichotomy that constantly emerges when you see politicians talking about immigration.
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But it is a false dichotomy - the Lumières' films were often just as fictitious.
Usage of double bind in English
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Without an emancipated Adult, life is an unbearable double bind for both.
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It's the embodiment of Gregory Bateson's double bind, each message perfectly negating the other.
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To be a working-class person of colour in this landscape is a double bind.
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But when you put black women in that category, you get the double bind.
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And so they contend with a double bind: fear of failure and fear of success.
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All these manoeuvres put Nato in a double bind.
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At the same time, energy and feed costs have increased, putting farmers in a double bind.
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This is the double bind of masculine identity.
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Techniques of suggestion and double bind were tried.
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The double bind Many of the boys characterised the middle- and upper-classes as entitled, self-serving and uncaring.
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This is the catch-22, the double bind.
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The exchange showed the structure of the double bind that passes for law & order in S. Africa.
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It is the ' double bind' of the post-Metastructure: it must destroy humanity, but it must do so indefinitely.
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The double bind, they call it.
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Are you presenting your people with a " double bind" -asking them to behave in contradictory ways simultaneously?
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When I'd made it plain that if he trespassed against my boundaries so egregiously I'd leave, he must have been in a double bind.
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Translations for double bind
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