I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...

Have you ever heard of the phrase, “War on Christmas?” It’s a common exaggeration made by those who perceive a societal change from people saying “Merry Christmas” to now saying “Happy Holidays.” An ...

A straw-man fallacy argument is when the viewpoints you are using to argue your conclusion are not actually related to or controlled by the opposition. Much of the objection to Gorsuch Haus falls into ...

Rich Lowry, in his article (March 26) denouncing Bernie Sanders’ proposal to establish a four-day workweek, sums up his point at the end by saying, “Sanders’ idea is a frank expression of economic ...

I’m afraid Tom Neumark’s March 9 piece on schools, (“The school privatization that isn’t”) based as it was on the old “straw man” fallacy, didn’t do his cause any favors. I would recommend almost any ...

This is not an opinion column — as far as I can tell — but terms come up in contexts that intrigue me. The most recent is a “straw man.” It came up in a commentary on National Public Radio that stated ...

One of many problems with Tucker Carlson is his almost obsessive use of the straw man fallacy: rejecting an argument that differs from the one actually being made. Here’s an example: Alice says, “Cars ...

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https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.54.2.0109 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/philrhet.54.2.0109 Copy URL ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the debate about ...