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The phrase "tertium quid" (or "third option" in Latin) refers to something that exposes a dichotomy as false. A tertium quid is not somewhere between the two options (grey is not a tertium quid to the dichotomy of black vs. white), but rather something entirely new, something that escapes the one-dimensional line between two options. | The phrase "tertium quid" (or "third option" in Latin) refers to something that exposes a dichotomy as false. A tertium quid is not somewhere between the two options (grey is not a tertium quid to the dichotomy of black vs. white), but rather something entirely new, something that escapes the one-dimensional line between two options. | ||
|2=[http://tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=87 Tailsteak]}} | |2=[http://tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=87 Tailsteak]}} | ||
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| + | A third option may break a [[Color politics|political dichotomy]], showing the sides that neither of their solutions is a goal worth striving for. | ||
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*[http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/blue_or_green_o.html Blue or Green on Regulation?] by [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] | *[http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/blue_or_green_o.html Blue or Green on Regulation?] by [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] | ||
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=====Other Resources===== | =====Other Resources===== | ||
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*[http://tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=87 Tertium Quid, the webcomic] | *[http://tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=87 Tertium Quid, the webcomic] | ||
Revision as of 04:56, 21 May 2009
The phrase "tertium quid" (or "third option" in Latin) refers to something that exposes a dichotomy as false. A tertium quid is not somewhere between the two options (grey is not a tertium quid to the dichotomy of black vs. white), but rather something entirely new, something that escapes the one-dimensional line between two options.
A third option may break a political dichotomy, showing the sides that neither of their solutions is a goal worth striving for.
