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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

ENGL 1213: Logical Fallacies


1213: Logical Fallacies

Strawman

Your writer has committed the Strawman Fallacy when he ignores his opposition’s actual position and constructs an exaggerated version of that position to argue with instead – as if, instead of arguing with his real opponent, he were to argue with a strawman version.