Talk:False choice

Another variant of the Morton's fork dilemma is the one concerning the appropriate manner in which a new lawyer ought to furnish his office. Decorate it too lavishly, so the argument runs, and potential clients will be put off, thinking, perhaps, that their fees are paying for the expensive carpeting and prestigious address. Decorate it too modestly, on the other hand, and those same potential clients will think the lawyer is too poor (and thus incompetent) to earn enough to furnish the office adequately.

This sentence: "Such absolutism is applicable in science and mathematics, in which problems can have one and only one solution." is problematic due to ambiguous placement of the word "can"; I assume that the intended meaning is either that some scientific problems have only one solution (in which case absolutism is *sometimes* appropriate), or that all scientific problems have only one solution, which is innacurate (biological fields, especially, tend to be over-determined; and the proper interpretation of "solution" in a scientific context is debatable). Patrick Alexander (too lazy to login)