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So What Are Straw Man Arguments Really For?

IDEAS Posted: September 8, 2020 8:28 am

One wonders how straw man arguments function. Our answer is that straw men arguments do their rhetorical work not on the speaker depicted as made of straw, but rather on an audience of argumentative onlookers, often selected specifically for the argument by the straw-manner. – 3 Quarks Daily

IDEAS Published: 09.07.20

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