Or are they basically the same? Thank you for any help.
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**Hobson’s Choice**
Hobson’s Choice refers to offering people a choice with only one practical option. It’s an illusion of choice.
For example the phrase: “Take it or leave it”
This logic is named after an infamous stable owner named Hobson that would give you the choice of the Horse closest to the door or none at all. In other words if you want a horse, you’ll take the one I’m giving you or none at all.
A more contemporary example is Henry Ford’s famous saying:
“You can have it in any color you want, so long as its black”
Henry Ford famously painted all Model T’s black because it was the cheapest and most practical color to paint them.
**Catch 22**
A Catch 22 is a situation were the only solution is denied by a circumstance caused by the very same situation.
For example:
“You can’t get a job without experience, but you can only get experience from a job.”
Another one is the Lottery paradox
“You can’t win if you don’t play, but if you play you can’t win”
The phrase was coined in a 1961 novel by Joseph Heller of the same name. During which he describes the paradox of a Flight Surgeon taking a pilot off the line due to insanity because they are fearing for their life. The problem is if a pilot wants to be taken off the line because they fear for their life it proves they aren’t crazy.
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