What are the examples of results which have been proved assuming a conjecture to be both true and false?

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Littlewood proving that $Li(x) - \pi(x)$ changes sign infinitely often by assuming the Riemann Hypothesis. But later he was able to prove it assuming the Riemann Hypothesis is false.

I find it interesting that you could make opposite assumptions and still arrive at the same result.

What are the examples of other results which have been proved assuming a conjecture to be true and also assuming the same conjecture to be false.