A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from … See more

The straw man fallacy occurs in the following pattern of argument:
1. Person 1 asserts proposition X.
2. Person 2 argues against a superficially similar proposition Y, falsely, as if an argument against Y w… See more

In a 1977 appeal of a U.S. bank robbery conviction, a prosecuting attorney said in his oral argument:
I submit to you that if you can't take this evidence and find these defendants guilty on this evid… See more

As a fallacy, the identification and name of straw man arguments are of relatively recent date, although Aristotle makes remarks that suggest a similar concern; Douglas N. Walton identified "the first inclusion o… See more

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