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Middle Ground

Argument to moderation, a logical fallacy that states that the "middle ground" is always correct



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Argument to moderation

As Vladimir Bukovsky puts it, the middle ground between the Big Lie of Soviet propaganda and the truth is a lie, and one should not be looking for a middle ground between disinformation and information.

Elleston Trevor

Quiller (not his real name) occupies a literary middle ground between James Bond and John le Carré.

Eustace Scrubb

In Lewis' essay The Abolition of Man, he argues that modern education is producing "men without chests" – people whose lives are divided between the purely cerebral and the purely visceral, without any middle ground of sentiment or imagination—and Eustace (in his initial state) is clearly intended to be one of these.

Francis Parkman Prize

1992 – Richard White for The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815

Jervis Bay

Popular diving sites include The Labyrinths, Gorgonian Wall, Point Perpendicular, a Fairey Firefly aeroplane, scallop beds, Middle Ground, Ten Fathom Reef, and Bowen Island.

Racism in Italy

Alfredo Niceforo followed Lombroso physiognomical approach, but in 1906 published a curious racial theory where both blond pigmentation of hair on one hand and dark skin on the other were considered signs of degeneration, with the Italian race in a positive middle ground.

Stuart McGugan

He has been seen most recently in a Middle Ground Theatre Company tour of a stage adaptation of the 1960 film Tunes of Glory.

Uvedale Price

As much as The Picturesque was meant to be a middle ground or synthesis of the Beautiful and the Sublime for Price, for Townscape theorists, the Townscape movement was meant to be a middle ground or alternative approach to what were perceived by Hastings as two branches of Functionalism, the Rational (i.e. Le Corbusier) and the Organic (i.e. Frank Lloyd Wright) approaches to architecture and urban design.