What is a "straw man?"
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YoungApolegist
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What is a "straw man?"
I never really understood what the term meant. Can someone explain this to me?
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Danieltwotwenty
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Re: What is a "straw man?"
It means they attack a position you do not hold too. Like for example I argue for the Bible being true and they counter argue that the Bible is not true because the age of the Earth is millions of years, since I am a Theistic Evolutionist I don't hold to the Y.E.C. interpretation and the argument is invalid.
1Tim1:15-17
Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever.Amen.
Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever.Amen.
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Re: What is a "straw man?"
Dan covered it pretty well, just a rephrase, a straw man is basically a false position created and attributed to the other person by you, only to be knocked down by you easily, to give you some credit in the eye of the beholder.
It would be a blessing if they missed the cairns and got lost on the way back. Or if
the Thing on the ice got them tonight.
I could only turn and stare in horror at the chief surgeon.
Death by starvation is a terrible thing, Goodsir, continued Stanley.
And with that we went below to the flame-flickering Darkness of the lower deck
and to a cold almost the equal of the Dante-esque Ninth Circle Arctic Night
without.
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the Thing on the ice got them tonight.
I could only turn and stare in horror at the chief surgeon.
Death by starvation is a terrible thing, Goodsir, continued Stanley.
And with that we went below to the flame-flickering Darkness of the lower deck
and to a cold almost the equal of the Dante-esque Ninth Circle Arctic Night
without.
//johnadavid.wordpress.com
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PaulSacramento
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Re: What is a "straw man?"
A list of "logical fallacies":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies