Why 'Straw Man Fallacy' was used
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It appears that Father John Wadeson, in his letter to the editor of July 25, has defaulted to what logicians call "The Straw Man Fallacy." This fallacy can be demonstrated thus: Person A has position X. Person B presents position Y (a distortion of X). Person B attacks position Y. Therefore X is wrong and A is the problem.
I am Person A. X, my position, is as follows:
Excellent post Tim. Basically resumes the situation. I was struck by your lay out. I believe you shall understand why when you get the copy of my letter to Cardinal Ouellet
ReplyDeleteGreat letter, Tim!
ReplyDeleteEileen Benavente-Blas