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 ...

Jo Ann Rebane’s Opinion piece “What’s wrong with DEI? (The Union 6/18/25) is a master example of the form of fallacious argumentation known as Straw Man. In such arguments, the speaker first builds a ...

Straw man fallacy is a mistaken belief, especially based on unsound arguments. It, therefore, renders an argument invalid. A straw man fallacy occurs when someone takes another person's argument or ...

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 ...

Setting up a “straw-man argument” means creating a vulnerable fictitious persona and pulverizing it with one swift blow. After setting up the opposition’s supposed position, it is refuted in a ...

Please permit me to comment on a letter by Mr Ruel Johnson (SN January 6, 2016: `It is good to show we are capable of clemency but first we must show we can deliver justice’.) That letter was partly ...

I hope FT readers see Stuart Kirk’s tirades for what they are: mental workouts with a pugnacious sparring partner, useful for training them in argument. A master of rhetoric, he bombards the reader ...

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 ...