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Revision as of 10:05, 12 August 2015
Strawman: This fallacy sets up a weakened or caricatured version of the opponent's argument. The speaker then proceeds to demolish the weak version of the argument, and claim victory. In this case, the author misrepresented our argument in order to make it easier to attack.