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Continuum fallacy

The continuum fallacy is an informal fallacy of assuming that the existence of a continuum of possible states between two binary positions means that said positions are not meaningfully different.

Fred is clean-shaven now. If a person has no beard, one more day of growth will not cause them to have a beard. Therefore, Fred can never grow a beard.

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