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Old 11-27-2005, 11:07 PM
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Default Re: how many of these happen in this forum

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In essence, the strawman attack is putting words in your opponent's mouth and then attacking the resulting position, while simultaenously evading the real argument.

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Not entirely the province of any one side of any disagreement/point of view. As has been pointed out in this forum more than a few times.

Was that the intent of your post? Since you picked the link you did, I have to wonder if it was merely an example.

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