MVC is all about seperation of concerns - but deals with specifics in that the View is loosely-coupled to the model and controller; with 3-tier this is not explicitly required.
They're not competing idealogies, MVC traditionally deals with the presentation layer of an app, i.e. One of the three layers.
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