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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 05:10, 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.
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Overcoming Bias Articles
- Blue or Green on Regulation? by Eliezer Yudkowsky — Burch's law isn't a soldier-argument for regulation; estimating the appropriate level of regulation in each particular case is a superior third option.
