Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:43:56 -0800, alex23 wrote: > >> Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: >>> You're using that term wrong. It looks to me that you don't actually >>> know what a straw man argument is. A straw man argument is when >>> somebody responds to a deliberately weakened or invalid argument as if >>> it had been made by their opponent. >> Jeez, Steve, you're beginning to sound like some kind of fallacy >> zealot... ;) > > Death to all those who confuse agumentum ad populum with argumentum ad > verecundiam!!! > > Yeah, what did the zealots ever do for us?
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