The Nirvana Fallacy

Lernabit
4 min readFeb 12, 2020

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The nirvana fallacy is a fallacy in which someone rejects an answer to a question or a solution to a problem because it is not a perfect solution, even if the proposed perfect solution is unrealistic or unfeasible. This is a fallacy because while a solution may not be perfect, that doesn’t necessarily mean it is ineffective or wrong.

This is very closely related to another fallacy called the perfect solution fallacy, which is…

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