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    triplev123
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lucky Camilla"s Lovechild View Post
    Well if i've missed the point (what was it again?), then you've lost your page in the book. What the hell has the Harness Jewells got to do with the MM. OK then, lets just stop all NZers from racing here. And while were at it. Lets deport all kiwi's as well.

    [VVV] A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position, twisting his words or by means of [false] assumptions.
    To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.
    Generally, the straw man is a highly exaggerated or over-simplified version of the opponent's original statement, which has been distorted to the point of absurdity. This exaggerated or distorted statement is thus easily argued against, but is a misrepresentation of the opponent's actual statement.

    With thanks to some on-line terminology explanation thingo.
    Last edited by triplev123; 11-16-2011 at 08:18 PM.

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