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A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction. [1] One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".
A straw-man (or straw-dog or straw-person) proposal is a brainstormed simple draft proposal intended to generate discussion of its disadvantages and to spur the generation of new and better proposals. [1] The term is considered American business jargon, [2] but it is also encountered in engineering office culture.
Tax protesters, "commercial redemption" and "get out of debt free" scams claim that one's debts and taxes are the responsibility of the strawman and not of the real person. They back this claim by misreading the legal definition of person and misunderstanding the distinction between a juridical person and a natural person. [4] [5]
The straw man fallacy refers to the refutation of a standpoint in an argument that was never proposed. The fallacy usually occurs in the presentation of an opponent's standpoint as more extreme, distorted, or simplistic than it actually is.
Straw purchases were at the center of two cases announced this week. Three men in Kansas City, Missouri, were charged with federal counts related to the illegal purchase of high-powered rifles and ...
I've known my husband was the person I wanted to marry since we met. He knows me so well and proposed to me in a library without saying a word. He also secretly filmed our engagement, and I'll ...
The person making the argument expects that the listener will accept the provided definition, making the argument difficult to refute. [19] Divine fallacy (argument from incredulity) – arguing that, because something is so phenomenal or amazing, it must be the result of superior, divine, alien or paranormal agency. [20]
In the U.S., Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn, said Trump had "totally lost it" and that a U.S. invasion of Gaza would lead to the slaughter of thousands of U.S. troops and decades of war in the Middle East.