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Originally Posted by Gary L
What?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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A straw man is a type of argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.
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Originally Posted by Gary L
I've never played the devils advocaat before.
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Side-bar. My late Gran used to love that stuff. Always bought her a bottle at Christmas