Don't feed the trolls: Straw men and iron men
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Scott Aikin
Vanderbilt University
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The straw man fallacy consists in inappropriately constructing or selecting weak versions of the opposition's arguments. We will survey the three forms of straw men recognized in the literature, the straw, weak, and hollow man. We will then make the case that there are examples of inappropriately reconstructing stronger versions of the opposition's arguments. Such cases we will call iron man fallacies.
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Commentary On: Scott Aikin and John Casey's "Don't Feed the Trolls: Straw Men and Iron Men".James B. Freeman - unknown
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