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Damning the Alternatives (view source)
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'''Damning the Alternatives''' is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone ranks favorably a certain position by selectively choosing just its pros while treats all other alternatives with bias, emphasizing solely their cons. From logical standpoint, one cannot prove that the position A is a better one or superior to others just by showing that there are difficulties with other positions.
'''Damning the Alternatives''' is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone ranks favorably a certain position by selectively choosing just its pros while treats all other alternatives with bias, emphasizing solely their cons. From logical standpoint, one cannot prove that the position A is a better one or superior to others just by showing that there are difficulties with other positions.
According to [[Karl Popper]], a noted authority on scientific methodology, whenever a [[hypothesis]] appears to a [[scientist]] as the only possible one, it should be taken as a sign that he or she have neither understood the hypothesis nor the problem which it was intended to solve. He also urges investigators to construct ''alternative'' theories - althernatives even to those theories which appear to one inescapable. Only in that way the theories held could be understood.<ref name="Hedtke">{{cite book
|author=Randal Hedtke
|title=Secrets of the Sixth Edition
|publisher=Master Books
|place=Portland, Oregon
|year=2010
|pages=139
|isbn=978-0-89051-597-6
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=gvyHquVubDoC}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Logic]]
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[[Category:Methodology of Science]]