Of course, it is not a logical fallacy to disprove a week argument, the fallacy is believing or acting as though proving that one argument for a position is invalid proves that the conclusion is wrong. |
Of course, it is not a logical fallacy to disprove a weak argument, the fallacy is believing or acting as though proving that one argument for a position is invalid proves that the conclusion is wrong. |
Of course, it is not a logical fallacy to disprove a weak argument, the fallacy is believing or acting as though proving that one argument for a position is invalid proves that the conclusion is wrong.
People often refer to several different situations as "setting up a straw man."
Some logic textbooks define the straw man fallacy only in terms of a misrepresented argument. However, it is now common to use the term in a much more general sense, and therefore we now identify all three situations as examples of the straw man fallacy.