Sentences with phrase «something of a straw man»

In his argument, he posits a definition of «machine» that is something of a straw man (or straw machine, I should say).

In that respect, the title of the page and the initial response create something of a straw man.

I think the «deficit model» is something of a straw man.

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What some experts are doing is putting up a straw man, pointing to those extreme cases in which some people let the development of the business plan become an end in itself — something that gets in the way of business rather than helping to optimize it.

«Annual caps on immigration are unnecessary and could exclude people with valuable skills, the Communities Secretary has said... John Denham has said the Government does not support the idea as applicants with something to contribute should get the chance to come to Britain... «We don't think population is going to go to 70 million, so there is a bit of a straw man there,» he said.»

He's creating a straw man here, saying that there's something to be gained by consistency across every market in regard to criticisms of pricing vs. cost of production.

There is something gloriously self - referential about playing the straw man card in a post in which you, for no apparent reason, explicitly re-interpret «quite conceivable» to mean «kind of likely», then call it «magical thinking», quote a psych text in case we don't know what magical thinking is and dismiss it out of hand.

A straw man argument is one that accuses someone of saying something they did not.

Now, if you can sort that out, where you're getting his quotes, maybe I've missed them, why you've totally ignored his scenario, why you're arguing against a straw man of thermal equilibrium of your own invention and brought in the totally irrelevant conduction through solids and all the arguments about the 2nd law with respect to that, maybe you could write something worth reading about his paper.

A lot of deniers seem to think climate models are looking for something to fit to warming — these straw men see the Keeling curve, say, «Hey, that looks like it!»

You can keep arguing against straw men of your own construction, or you can actually try to learn something about the subject.