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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (106572)	7/20/2003 12:09:26 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

:-) It is a rhetorical device which is a false dichotomy. The fallacies are often called rhetorical devices or even flourishes by people who want to use them, or defend them..... Even if Clinton had said it, it still would have been a false dichotomy- even when said for rhetorical effect. Was analyzing several inaugural addresses last year- lots of fallacies in those- sure they sound pretty sometimes- but a fallacy is a fallacy is a fallacy- no matter how pretty it is. (With apologies to Gertrude)