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To: Toddsterpatriot

A straw man or straw person, also known in the UK as an Aunt Sally,is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position. To “attack a straw man” is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet un-equivalent proposition (the “straw man”), and to refute it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.

(This in case I am incorrect, and you are stupid.)


83 posted on 07/19/2013 3:16:39 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel
an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position.

Is that what I did when I read both your posts? I misrepresented your position? Feel free to represent your position correctly.

85 posted on 07/19/2013 5:35:34 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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