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Hello, I'm Bornright.

Hi, Im a fan of RRS. I'm here out of curiosity. I can't seem to find the search threads featureSad

 

I'd like to know more about strawman arguements. 

"There was a 100% chance I was going to write this" - Heisenberg.


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Hello, unfortunately the

Hello, unfortunately the search function is only available for subscribers. I can give you a couple of good references to website that cover logical fallacies.

http://www.logicalfallacies.info/

http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html


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Well if you really want to

Well if you really want to search I'd suggest using google you can even search within sites.

I can give you a run down of a strawman though.

 

Dude: I think aliens could exist given how large existence is.

Dude Two: What?!?! Aliens didn't come to earth!

Dude: I didn't say that.

Dude Two: Whatever, where is your proof of aliens coming to earth?

 

Dude Two is strawmaning Dude's argument from aliens might exist to aliens came to earth.


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An example of a Google

An example of a Google search:

type this into google:

site:rationalresponders.com strawman argument

 

Of course, this doesn't take into account misspellings of argument.  Eye-wink 

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Luckly google takes into

Luckly google takes into account 99.9% of my mispellings. Smiling

 

Thanks BGH and Void.