Template:Short description Template:Use British English Oxford spelling Template:Use dmy datesTemplate:Redirect-synonym Argument to moderation (Template:Langx)—also known as the false compromise, argument from middle ground, fallacy of gray, middle ground fallacy, or golden mean fallacy<ref name="Nizkor">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>—is the fallacy that the truth is always in the middle of two opposites.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
It does not necessarily suggest that an argument for the middle solution or for a compromise is always fallacious, but rather applies primarily in cases where such a position is ill-informed, unfeasible, or impossible, or where an argument is incorrectly made that a position is correct simply because it is in the middle.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
An example of an argument to moderation would be considering two statements about the colour of the sky on Earth during the dayTemplate:Sndone claiming, correctly, that the sky is blue, and another claiming that it is yellowTemplate:Sndand incorrectly concluding that the sky is the intermediate colour, green.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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- Excluded middle – Opposite logical fallacy to argument to moderation
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