How To Use Straw man In A Sentence
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So the image of the bespectacled fuddy-duddy in his dusty library is a straw man: I would hazard that print publishing experts are actually on the cutting edge of new media.
Publishing’s not as out of it as you think
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As I understand it it can all be sorted out, but you are — I suspect unintentionally and in good faith — offering a bit of a straw man due to your not distinguishing a few key concepts, such as prudentialism versus constitutional judgment, empathy for a legal injustice versus sympathy resulting in bias, and a judge versus a justice.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:
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So the claim that there are conservatives who believe in some sort of absolute liberty is a total straw man.
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He will spark of such an argument via the use of ad hominem attacks (i.e. 'you're nothing but a fanboy' is a popular phrase) (or in this case repeated accusations that those contributing are "embittered feminists") with no substance or relevance to back them up as well as straw man arguments (i.e. continual redefining of what the discussion is actually about), which he uses to simply avoid addressing the essence of the issue.
Sex and the single Marvel super heroine | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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Nothing like a "religionist" straw man to bait, for thinkers who can't look at themselves
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The " Imperial President " was a straw man created by defensive congressmen and by disillusioned liberals.
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So please stop trying to make me into your own personal straw man to knock over and then scoff at with little snidey remarks and condescending interjections.
TEXAS FAITH: Glenn Beck and the culture of fear | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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One tended to see it cited mostly as a straw man, a cardinal example of an overly literal approach to literary theory.
Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education
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The union convinces its members that they are victims and that they don't earn a living wage, and that they need to be protected "from abuse of power by administrators". that statement makes me believe you were an Oregon teacher even less. and of course a teacher's union isn't perfect -- but using it as a straw man catch-all for academic ills is ludicrous.
High school dropout rate takes a leap (Jack Bog's Blog)
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That’s a good one – only a member of the crime syndicate could project so well their own reality onto a scapegoat – a straw man – your name befits your amorality – say hi to your crime bosses Bush and Cheney next time you pay homage
Think Progress » Santorum: ‘I Think The Focus Should Not Be Iraq, It Should Be Iran’
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And, like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine, he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down.
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Effects of interplanting with zero tillage and wheat straw manuring(ZIS) on rice growth and grain quality were studied in a wheat-rice cropping system.
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If you think something is "unstudied" how would you know it is a straw man? bbb1
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So the claim that there are conservatives who believe in some sort of absolute liberty is a total straw man.
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This will require a redefinition of science to avoid this “straw man” as many design advocates refer to this untestability-unfalsifiability-unpublishability of original research issue.
Win in Dover! - The Panda's Thumb
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We seem to be standing up for corporate profit, but defending our individualism is the straw man.
Think Progress » Why George Washington would disagree with the right wing about health care’s constitutionality.
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A mho tip: when you allow members to insult other members, it becomes a game, and gangs form and make a straw man of certain members.
Audio: Hillary Privately Blasted "The Activist Base Of The Democratic Party" For Caucus Defeats
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But rather than try to go with the rational argument which, granted, often seems not to work very well in this society, organizations in favor of equal opportunity try to back it up by arguing what you call the straw man.
More on the New Republic piece - The Panda's Thumb
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The " Imperial President " was a straw man created by defensive congressmen and by disillusioned liberals.
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The straw man fallacy - invent a deliberately weakened version of your opponent's position, demolish it, then claim to have refuted their argument.
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As I wrote last year, a straw man which represented Fawkes standing in the middle.
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Looks like I hit a nerve to point where I am being called "batboy" and my argument is being interpreted as a "straw man" fallacy.
How not to recall a Portland mayor (Jack Bog's Blog)
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So the image of the bespectacled fuddy-duddy in his dusty library is a straw man: I would hazard that print publishing experts are actually on the cutting edge of new media.
Bookninja
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The aim is to avoid the straw man fallacy - rejecting positions not on the basis of their true characteristics but on the basis of crude or otherwise erroneous caricatures of them.
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The creationist position in the Origin is never merely a straw man to be knocked down.
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Sometimes I worry that "narratologist" becomes a straw man, a signifier more for "dilletante humanist who knows shit about video games" rather than "practicioner of narratological methods of inquiry.
Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show
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Indeed, Brogan seems to have assembled such critical literature into something of a straw man, and consequently her revisionism must lose some of its ‘revolutionary’ footing.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the easily vincible Straw Man.
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How far back should I go to illustrate your two year exercise in obtuseness demanding ‘proofs’ and replies to your straw man arguments re: 9/11 on the Xymphora website?
Damn you, red baron
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But in a new twist a witness has come forward and identified the van in which the kidnappers were driving when they nabbed the luckless straw man.
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I also believe the phrase "gay gene" is a straw man argument, or a buzzword perpetrated by the religious right such as the phrases "radical homosexual activist" or "protecting marriage.
Alvin McEwen: Eleventh researcher complains that the religious right distorted his work
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Invoke the slippery slope and construct a straw man to knock down with one fell swoop of rhetoric.
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If it walks like a duck is a fallacious argument when the people who claim as much are using a straw man.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 4, 2010
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Chaplin asserted that our familiar argument that games themselves are an adolescent medium -- one I recently trotted out myself -- is a straw man.
Kicking The Dog
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Lord Carter, the minister for technology, communications and broadcasting, warned earlier in the week that if everyone "torched" the straw man it would be a sign that the industry did not have enough commonality for a co-regulatory approach to work, in which case the government would either introduce comprehensive legislation or abandon the industry to its fate.
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The sharecropper is a straw man, an intermediary, usually a middle-aged farm worker, to whom the grower shifts many of the legal and financial risks.
In the Strawberry Fields
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Barack intentionally, extraneously ventured into straw man land in order to define journalism itself as a detestable “old Washington game”.
Obama: the press’s abusive lover
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The fact that you must argue against an idolatrized straw man is strong evidence that science need not be provisionally atheistic
Approaches Determine Outcomes
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You're talking about monotheism as if its synonomous with fundamentalism and religious intolerance, which strikes me as a bit of a straw man argument.
