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> If the truth isn't somewhere in the middle, then by definition it must be on one of the two extreme edges

In one dimension. If both sides are fundamentally wrong, the middle is probably also mischaracterised.

Pro-and anti-phlogiston theorists [1] weren’t validated by a little phlogiston. They were superseded by oxygen theory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory



I'm no electrical engineer. But I know it's crucial to not let the phlogiston out of the wires.


> "In one dimension."

Not even in one dimension. But that is obviously also a categorization/composition issue and therefore subject to other, potentially fallacious and accordingly named, pitfalls.




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