False Alternative

Must we choose between academics and character?

A very popular logical fallacy is called “false alternative.” The hapless victim of said fallacy is presented with two, and only two, choices. When the fallacy is online and operational, those two choices do not represent all the choices available. For example, if someone is told that the car must either be yellow or blue, he left, wondering why it couldn’t be another color. But other times there really are just two choices. If one is told, for example, that the car was either yellow or not yellow, then he really is confronting the only two logical possibilities.