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I don't look up words created by political people. and for your third personal attack, congrats. it actually doesn't make me look like anything not knowing a made up term.
A straw man is a logical fallacy. It has nothing to do with politics. It's simple philosophy.
Way to make your anti-intellectualism apparent in just one post.
You should be a comedian, except instead of pointing out the differences between black people and white people or men and women, you can make jokes about differences between Democrats and Republicans. I can see it now...
I dont think I would be very funny as a comedian, talk facts to people and they start to understand, its just not funny..
A person who is set up as a cover or front for a questionable enterprise.
An argument or opponent set up so as to be easily refuted or defeated.
A bundle of straw made into the likeness of a man and often used as a scarecrow.
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To argue against a straw man is to interpret someone's position in an unfairly weak way, and so argue against a position that nobody holds, or is likely to hold.
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A colloquial expression designating those arguments in briefs or opinions created solely for the purpose of debunking or "discovering" them. Arguments so created are like "straw men" because they are, by nature, insubstantial.
The term is also sometimes referred to in commercial and property contexts when a transfer is made to a third party, the straw man [person], simply for the purpose of retransfering to the transferor in order to accomplish some purpose not otherwise permitted. Thus, if a covenant running with the land must be included in the deed in the jurisdiction, such a covenant can be established subsequently by conveying the property to a straw man [person] and obtaining from this person a new grant with the desired convenant now in the deed. See dummy.
To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.
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Made up?
