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To: WVKayaker

And it continues. Never an explaination of why it is a strawman, as opposed to some other logical fallacy, or why it is a strawman at all. Just “Strawman!”.


350 posted on 06/29/2008 9:43:48 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic; WVKayaker

Tacti son, there is something you need to understand.

A strawman is not a logical fallacy.

Its simply a disruptive slight of hand that people use when they don’t have a real argument.

When your out in the woods with friends and someone sees a bear they just say ‘Bear!’.

Nobody goes into details of why its a bear.

I suggest you try to avoid getting your knickers in a knot every time someone calls you on your slight of hand.


353 posted on 06/29/2008 9:59:42 AM PDT by Fichori (Primitive goat herder.)
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To: tacticalogic; WVKayaker
"Never an explaination of why it is a strawman"

Because it is a deliberate misrepresentation of the opponent's original point.

372 posted on 06/29/2008 12:49:42 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: tacticalogic

To the neophyte, everything is a strawman or an ad hominem. Never a reductio ad absurdum or an ad populum.


409 posted on 06/29/2008 7:48:35 PM PDT by Bogey78O (Don't call them jihadis. Call them irhabis. Tick them off, don't entertain their delusion.)
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