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I don't think there's the need to take the examples in the article hyper literally. You can call them strawmen if you'd like but simplification for the sake of
by operator-name 5y ago
I don't think there's the need to take the examples in the article hyper literally. You can call them strawmen if you'd like but simplification for the sake of presenting a point (which you seem to have ignored) is necessary.
- banku_brougham 5y agoaka exactly what straw man means
- operator-name 5y agoI'm not arguing it isn't, only that the comment does does something similar by ignoring the point of the article.
- PragmaticPulp 5y ago> You can call them strawmen if you'd like but simplification for the sake of presenting a point If you simplify away the parts that make the argument invalid, that's literally the definition of a strawman argument.
- operator-name 5y agoI don't disagree, I'm simply questioning the benifit of nitpicking the strawmen instead of addressing the argument itself.