A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position.[1] To “attack a straw man” is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the “straw man”), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.[1][2]
My position never included the any claims about the value of the statement as an argument. To imply that my position was that it was a “bad” argument is to misrepresent my position. My position was exactly the two sentences that I wrote:
This is a statement that can be made about any premise. It is backed by no supporting evidence.
Did he disagree with either of these two sentences? Or did he strongly imply that I said that the upvoted comment was a bad argument and attack that?
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My position never included the any claims about the value of the statement as an argument. To imply that my position was that it was a “bad” argument is to misrepresent my position. My position was exactly the two sentences that I wrote:
Did he disagree with either of these two sentences? Or did he strongly imply that I said that the upvoted comment was a bad argument and attack that?