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'''Straw man''' argument is a rhetorical technique or a logical fallacy set up to be easily refuted. A straw man argument may succeed in persuading people but it carries little or no real evidential weight, because the opponent's actual argument has not been refuted <ref name="urlLogical Fallacy: Straw Man">{{cite web |url=http://www.fallacyfiles.org/strawman.html |title=Logical Fallacy: Straw Man |format= |work= |accessdate=}}</ref>. | '''Straw man''' argument is a rhetorical technique or a logical fallacy set up to be easily refuted. A straw man argument may succeed in persuading people but it carries little or no real evidential weight, because the opponent's actual argument has not been refuted <ref name="urlLogical Fallacy: Straw Man">{{cite web |url=http://www.fallacyfiles.org/strawman.html |title=Logical Fallacy: Straw Man |format= |work= |accessdate=}}</ref>. | ||
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Straw man argument is a rhetorical technique or a logical fallacy set up to be easily refuted. A straw man argument may succeed in persuading people but it carries little or no real evidential weight, because the opponent's actual argument has not been refuted [1].