And the third view borders on complacency.
Yet there was a third view, too.
A third view, currently fashionable, attributes firms' growth to their "core competencies".
But that leaves out a third view of how the arts should function in society.
This third view has influenced Western man's concepts of angels and demons as well as his scientific and metaphysical concepts.
The third view, seeking the lesser evil, has emerged recently, much influenced by the philosopher Michael Ignatieff.
The third view would be that being a swing state and having a good credit rating are both effects of an underlying cause.
There is, however, a third view of the nature of numbers, known as Platonism or mathematical Platonism, that has been more popular in the history of philosophy.
Mr. Maraniss offers a third view, describing Mr. Obama as part of a "choom gang," a group of high school basketball buddies in Hawaii who frequently smoked marijuana.
A third view of the cosmos, generally found in the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islām, centred on a tripartite universe: celestial, terrestrial, and subterrestrial.
A third view, less widely held, suggests that it may be a phenomenon affecting primarily single people who may never marry.
