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		bdcravens on Dec 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands... Exactly. It's presented as an exhaustive list, making it a false dichotomy: "A situation in which two alternative points of view are presented as the only options, when others are available." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/false_dichotomy

weberc2 on Dec 18, 2019 [–]

In idiomatic English, "or" can imply a dichotomy as you suggest or an incomplete list, which was my intention. I wasn't thinking about the ambiguity when I wrote it, so that's my fault.

bdcravens on Dec 18, 2019 | [–]

Fair enough.

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