1999, María de Zayas y Sotomayor, Friendship betrayed, Bucknell University Press (→ISBN), page 20:
An examination of the concepts of binary opposition (specifically the construction of gender roles as such an opposition) and the fallacy of false dichotomy or false dilemma may help to unravel the nature of the challenges at work in the text.
2012, Maducchanda Sen, An Introduction to Critical Thinking, Pearson Education India (→ISBN), page 61:
When in an argument we do not mention all the alternatives there are to choose from but mention only some, we commit the fallacy of false dichotomy or false dilemma. Suppose we want to know where a friend of ours could ...
2013, Peter J. Bailey, Sam B. Girgus, A Companion to Woody Allen, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN)
There's a fallacy, variously named a “false alternative,” “false dichotomy,” or “false dilemma,” which consists in presenting choices as if they were only ones available, when there are, in fact, other relevant options. I suggest this is where Allen's thinking goes wrong. Specifically, when ...
2015, Ann Raimes, Susan K. Miller-Cochran, Keys for Writers with Assignment Guides, Spiral bound Version, Cengage Learning (→ISBN), page 65:
This proposal presents a false dichotomy. These are not the only two options for dealing with potential terrorism. Posing a false dilemma like this will annoy readers.
An argument commits the fallacy of false dichotomy or false dilemma if it presents two alternatives as exhaustive, when in fact other possibilities exist. Example (10): If you eat too much, you'll be stuffed to death. If you eat too little, you'll starve ...
