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I thought a strawman was a rhetorical device where you make up a weak version of your opponents argument and knock that down as a way of winning an argument in
by rbarooah 16y ago
I thought a strawman was a rhetorical device where you make up a weak version of your opponents argument and knock that down as a way of winning an argument in the eyes an audience who doesn't spot the flaw you introduced.
- msbarnett 16y agoA strawman argument is one which you specifically constructed for the purposes of knocking it down. A strawman fallacy is a fallacy in which you replace your opponent's actual argument with a strawman argument, and then assert that defeating the strawman argument defeats the opponent.