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"straw man" refers to when someone creates a weak or exaggerated version of another person's argument or viewpoint to easily criticize it. It is a way of misrepresenting someone's ideas to make them appear weaker or easier to defeat.
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- I'm left with an argument that they're not responding to and instead you get these kind of straw men arguments that you described. (blog.bulletproof.com)
- To know our spiritual situation is something, for it at least saves us from dealing with straw men. (religion-online.org)
- Like when you let out that you were using straw men in these conversations that were really just you and not another person. (nystateofpolitics.com)
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