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Fuego
Lv 4
Fuego asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 6 years ago

What's the best approach when dealing with a dilemma?

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dilemma (n.) Look up dilemma at Dictionary.com

1520s, from Late Latin dilemma, from Greek dilemma "double proposition," a technical term in rhetoric, from di- "two" + lemma "premise, anything received or taken," from root of lambanein "to take" (see analemma). It should be used only of situations where someone is forced to choose between two alternatives, both unfavorable to him. But even logicians disagree on whether certain situations are dilemmas or mere syllogisms.

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  • John
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones.

    The question is that it's any option to choose? if so what is consciousnesses?What is the best? You can always go back without getting to dilemma ,but when you going to continue a journey ,then there would be two ways ,three ways,even four ways and you need to choose one to continue or have reference to return and choose another way .The important is that you know a way is just a way it might get some where and intersect with lot of other ways or it may to go no where .Depend what is your destination and your target ,the most logical way is to be realistic and see the way as it is ,not as is told or described .Time always it make changes in any dilemma and each dilemma it become to many other smaller dilemmas like a main road that it distribute to many roads and exists .

  • 6 years ago

    Usually, if I step back from it my mind begins to not regard it as a dilemma

    but as a situation..no problem can be solved from the level which created it

    according to A. Einstein and experience has shown me that there is truth in his assertion.

    Worded in colloquial parlance it is thus; `You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs` ..

    and a resolution might be..to not have an omelette at all but something else..

    though as an analogy of A.E.`s declaration

    on a higher/ positive level (rendering it not interpreted as a dilemma),

    I don`t know what the `something else` might be..

    so this is food for thought.

    (I agree with, `Edward`s answer - it is what I would likely do).

    Lapiz

  • Raja
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Dilemmas are caused by spirits. All knowledge, skills, emotions, feelings, interests and everything are spirits. Even thoughts are not your own. When you want to take a decision on a subject, one after another they think and you just listen and choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. When you choose two ideas you are admitting two different spirits. Spirits always compete with each other to dominate a person in a higher level. As a result they insist their ideas again and again until you choose one.

    Human beings are ruled by spirits but humans must learn to control and rule the spirits. Spirits possess people according to the mental state of the human beings and keep them in the same state until they are rejected and replaced by another. This is an all time phenomena occurring in all humans. Human beings are always under the influence of spirits. Certain situations and circumstances causes the possession of certain type of spirits. Often thinking and talking about bad subjects or bad imaginations even for fun can take serious turns on one who think and talk. All spirits (good and bad) have the dominating character. They can take you to the extent of sacrifice or suicide.

    All of your activities, talks and even thoughts determine what kind of spirits you will have for your life. Only these spirits can create a good opportunity to get a job and all favorable things which you need to your life. Generally spirits determine the destiny of the human beings from their daily activities, talks and thoughts too. A human being during his/her lifetime is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. Human beings are just unprogrammed robots made of flesh, bones, tissues etc., by birth and toys of the spirits for their games.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    How do you define it?

    Dude, you use dictionary.com for anything substantive? There is no such thing as a dilemma. Choosing the course with the best utilitarian outcome is morally obligatory and choosing the other is forbidden. If both courses of action offer equal utility both are permissible and nether is forbidden. No dilemma. Choose either one, flip a coin. Your problem is in calculations.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    I would prefer to grab dilemma by the horns---rather than be caught on the horns of a dilemma.

  • D
    Lv 4
    6 years ago

    Before you can find the best way of dealing with the dilemma, you need the best way of finding the best way of dealing with the dilemma.

    Before you can find the best way of finding the best way of dealing with the dilemma, you need to find the best way of finding the best way of finding the best way of dealing with the dilemma.

  • 6 years ago

    I think, Dealing with the Nearable "STEPS", Which is Near to the Availability of the Mind, While Taken the "SAFEST IDEAS" as the BASE.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    The best approach is to use analytical logic and reasoning to break it down to its basic componants so that you can then use the most efficient, practical, pragmatic solution.

  • 6 years ago

    I find pulling out a sheet of paper and writing down the pros and cons of the situation is good place to start. It has helped me decide whether to leave a miserable but secure job, direct and define the course of my life and decide on pet names.

  • 6 years ago

    One possible way out (I suppose) is to continue ruminating about the meaning of WORDS rather than actions. This is a common ploy used by "debators".

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