Sentences with phrase «sort of straw man»

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So 98 % of the time («almost always»), you can confidently state that when someone «accuses» somebody of using a straw man, that they must be lying, employing some sort of «magic» trick.

But it never fails: Any sort of engagement with complementrarian ideas is immediately followed by the accusation that «that's not what complementarians really believe» or «you're pointing to an extreme example» or «you've created a straw man.»

Yet his comeback «Dead Man's Shoes», with its combination of small - town retribution and the supernatural, is far more successful in importing the oater sensibilities of «High Plains Drifter» to the West Country, while bringing back from the dead the sort of hardman grittiness not seen since such seventies classics as «Get Carter», «Straw Dogs» and the «Death Wish» films.

To me this is obvious, but I've learned to include this sort of disclaimer to make it marginally more difficult for dodgers, denialists, and dudgeon demons to avoid actual thought in favor of straw man arguments and other mischaracterizations of what I've actually said.

These are simply straw men of the crudest sort, trotted out for rhetorical effect.

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.

The purpose of the term seems to be to set up some sort of absurd straw man argument to deflect attention from the incident in question.