Straw man
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title:
Straw man
text:
A straw man fallacy is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man". The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition and the subsequent refutation of that false argument, instead of the opponent's p
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Form of argument and informal fallacy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
date created:
2001-08-20T18:30:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T19:20:36Z
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