The "Straw Man" Fallacy

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This is a sample video from a video tutorial course titled "Fallacies", which you can preview and purchase at the link above.

Part 1: Introduction
1.1 What is a fallacy?
1.2 Categorizing fallacies: pros and cons
1.3 The rules of rational argumentation

Part 2: Some Important Content Fallacies
2.1 Ad hominem (abusive)
2.2 Ad hominem (guilt by association)
2.3 Appeal to hypocrisy (tu quoque))
2.4 Appeal to popular belief (or practice)
2.5 Appeal to authority
2.6 False dilemma
2.7 Slippery slope

Part 3: Fallacies that Violate the Rules of Rational Argumentation
3.1 Straw figure
3.2 Red herring
3.3 Begging the question (narrow sense)
3.4 Begging the question (broad sense)

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  Education

[Sydney Gustat]

Everyone should be forced to learn all the fallacies in middle school. Can you imagine what the world would be like if everyone thought logically and critically?

[JohnsyOmniscient]

Please don't generalize, that is also a fallacy, I am a christian myself and I can tell you I do not create a strawman when someone opposes me, instead, logically, I respect their opinion and move on with my life, so please don't criticize on all christians.

[Petey0707]

I agree lol, it sounds nice rolling off the tongue, I will say.

[chuckleberryquinn]

I wish people would be required to understand the definition of "Faith" PRIOR to getting the word tattooed on themselves or choosing that as the name for their children.

Parent: Her name is Faith :)

Anonymous Person: and what does Faith mean..

Parent: Well it means.. that... I don't need any evidence.... for ...

Anonymous Person: ..- Oh I see..

[MrJoebrada]

wow, you guys need to be educated, in court, strawman exists in two forms, in an exempt of argument to a levy argument.. as for the people who have not studied strawman, so ironically its a catch 22 by your own education. there is no rulez in today its what you can convince in COURT. over stand everything you understand!. omg people need to wake up. Wow and the video has to put Religion into the context. Get a life, its called segregation of soceity. NEXT TIME THINK PEOPLE you make a video

[Petey0707]

Because, like I just said, they're a product of mythology. They're fiction. There's no observable data, proof or empirical evidence to show angels exist. Also, don't tell me "faith" is proof, it isn't proof. Faith is the complete lack of proof, its admitting you're willing to believe in something blindly without it. It's admitting that you believe in imaginary fairy tales just because some dumbfuck preacher told you to.

[elkellenhabla]

How do you know they don't exist?

[Jennifer Shaffer]

That's strange. I've never heard that in my church, but you must have been around those stupid redneck Christians, hence the fact that they yelled it out instead of saying it normally. We're not all like that, I like debating but I would never push religion onto someone. Actually, in an argument, instead of calling a strawman on someone, I would simply continue with the argument instead of being an asshat and claiming they're ignoring points that may not be important to me but important to them.

[Petey0707]

Uh, they don't exist? They're a product of mythology. 

[elkellenhabla]

What is illogical about angels?

[magentareverb]

so in other words it's trolling

[Petey0707]

I don't see any logic in angels, demons or omnipotent deities that we can't sense. As for atheism, it's a nonbelief, therefore it's impossible to "shove" such a thing down anyone's throat. You may be thinking of antitheism, which is the sheer rejection of God. I simply don't believe.