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Talk:Morton's fork
There is a RW place for this somewhere: anyone know a good home for it? (Perhaps 'list of household implement related ideas' - along with Occam's Razor etc) 82.44.143.26 (talk) 16:51, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
- Some examples would be good. Wẽãšẽĩõĩď
Methinks it is a Weasel 02:17, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
- Unexpected? Possibly the rhetorical arguments used against heretics during the Spanish Inquisition. --Sethpeck (talk) 21:28, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Wait, I thought a Morton's fork was a situation in which every possibility leads to an undesirable result (that is to say, a no-win situation). This article seems to be talking about how unfalsifiable theories are defended by their supporters no matter what. Perhaps there should be a disambiguation? --User:Brendan Rizzo, 22:00 UTC, 10 October 2013.
But surely all the tines of the fork are beneficial to the taxing authority? (And are not used against the low-wage persons actually using pitchforks.O Anna Livia (talk) 17:54, 30 July 2018 (UTC)