Dilemma — Types of Dilemma, Refutation of Dilemma — Values of Dilemma in Law

A landlord tells a tenant: pay the pending rent and you lose your savings; do not pay it and you lose the flat. Either way, you lose something. That is a dilemma in the strict logical sense — and this topic is not about accepting it, it is about knowing exactly how to break it.

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A dilemma traps you between two conditionals joined to a disjunction of their antecedents or their negated consequents, and it can always be attacked either formally, by rebuttal, or materially, by refutation, once you know where to look.

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