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{{trope}}
* Binary thinking
* Nirvana Fallacy (No, this has nothing to do with [[Nirvana|Kurt Cobain]].)
A subcategory of [[False Dichotomy]], the
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* The ultimate example is rejecting anything you like on the basis that it has been imperfectly proven; for example, rejecting the existence of China on the basis that you have never seen it.<ref>Or if you have seen it, rejecting the certainty that your own memories aren't lying to you, or if you are seeing it right now, rejecting the certainty that what you're seeing reflects some external reality</ref>
* This is popular when answering a technical question on the internet: "There is no solution to your problem which I can guarantee to work in 100% of all cases. So I'm not going to bother telling you what will work in 99% of all cases."
* You will hear this combined with Poisoning the Well if you hang around a review site for any length of time; always in defence of something the poster likes that scored poorly. "Well, reviewer A might say that about game Z, but reviewer A scored game Y too high / low, so obviously this site is not trustworthy." The implication is that because the site's reviews are not perfect, they are worthless.
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* Quite a few creators object to digital distribution schemes because they don't make as much money as they do selling physical copies. They alternative is usually piracy, which they obviously aren't making any money at all on.
* Rejecting a solution which actually does ''prevent'' one agreed to be better from being implemented.
* Rejecting the presentation of something as an alternative to the current course of action when it is only actually suited as a complement to it; in this instance, the inability to provide 100% replacement means it cannot be regarded as an alternative. For example, "alternative" electrical sources are not capable of providing 100% of a country's energy needs, and therefore cannot be accurately described as an alternative to more conventional generating methods.
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