Claim (false): Julia isn't multiple dispatch but overloading

I meant that a language can be multiple dispatch ( as defined in the Julia manual: Using all of a function’s arguments to choose which method should be invoked, rather than just the first, is known as multiple dispatch.), or it can be single-dispatch (as in Python), and at the same time it can be either static or dynamic. These two concepts seem to be orthogonal. Am I wrong?

The reason I bring this up is that these two concepts are conflated in this discussion, and it seems not to be helpful.

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