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argumentum ad temperantiam Catalan
argument per moderació Informal fallacy which asserts that the truth can be found as a compromise between two opposite positions.
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falsa equivalência Spanish
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Fight the false equivalence; it does you no good.
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It relies on the media to advance false equivalence strategies to attempt to normalise fringe beliefs.
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There is no point in pretending otherwise, nor in drawing a false equivalence between the two candidates.
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Try to think back to a time when the internet wasn't a toxic mix of rage and false equivalence.
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But the level of false equivalence he traffics in is typically reserved for black Republicans making a run for president.
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Tony, you're comparing apples and oranges and you know it.
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To try and liken RTE with the BBC is akin to comparing apples and oranges.
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But I don't think the NCVS numbers reflect those kinds of assaults, and so we're sort of comparing apples and oranges here.
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And therefore, as you just noted, when investigators attempted to compare elements of this murder to others', they were comparing apples and oranges.
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To some extent, comparing the capacity of US nuclear installations to that of renewable installations across the world is comparing apples and oranges.
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Australia doesn't need a publicly funded false balance factory.
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In other words, Richard Hardie, like thousands before him, was fabricating and maturing a false balance-sheet.
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He had for months spent his days poring over the books, fabricating and maturing a false balance-sheet.
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Is it not strange that there is such distorted perspective and false balance of values in regard to what is worth while?
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And that's what you're seeing in the Trump coverage -a movement away from false balance, toward saying what's true and not true.
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Perhaps only within certain boundaries, a middle ground between autonomy and enslavement?
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Could a return to middle ground of Keynesian economics be the answer?
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Facebook also takes a middle ground on the authenticity of personal accounts.
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You know, there's got to be some type of middle ground here.
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There was no middle ground, either for the technology or the sleeper.
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With its new policy, Uber seems to be splitting the difference.
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This isn't an argument for splitting the difference between gun control supporters and opponents, by the way.
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After some hesitation, we decided upon " splitting the difference."
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Molinari is meticulous at splitting the difference between her pro-choice stand and the demands of her new job.
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That's splitting the difference, isn't it?
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We overcame an enormous barrage of negativity, of false equivalency, and so much else.
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Why you should read it: In a political climate saturated in bad faith, one of the standard moves in is false equivalency.
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But desperate false equivalency posed as campaign savvy hardly justifies the risk of what could happen if more well-armed extremists take the allegation seriously.
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The wanton application of metaphors undermines their usefulness by creating false equivalencies.
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There are no false equivalencies to be made between sexism and pessimism.
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There is even a new word to describe the old ways when you'd hear both sides - 'bothsidesism'.
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Yet the phone and cable companies tried to dress up their plans as a false compromise.
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Norway Plus is a false compromise.