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  • 1: I thought A and B would confrontation in the past.
  • 2: A or B is not a point, but a set of concrete examples
  • 3: As time goes by, new examples emerge.
  • 4:
    • People associate new cases with close cases.
    • The boundaries of A and B are not clear.
      • This process spreads unconsciously.
  • 5: A new C appears.
    • C is A or B?
    • Conflict was slowly lost as the boundaries widened.
    • The idea that the dichotomy of the past continues is itself an assumption that is not grounded in reality.

concrete example

relevance - False dichotomy - Trade-off between two attributes - A story about how destroying the assumption that two attributes are a trade-off can lead to new ideas.

old dichotomy. old dichotomy.


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