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RSillsbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-11 08:04 AM
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57. Straw man!! not
A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.<1> To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.<1><2>

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