I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...
The Union: Ideas & Opinions — Robert Erickson: DEI and the Straw Man fallacy
Ideas & Opinions — Robert Erickson: DEI and the Straw Man fallacy
The Herald-Mail: Letters to the editor: Straw man, powerful words and embracing truth
Jo Ann Rebane’s Opinion piece “What’s wrong with DEI? (The Union 6/18/25) is a master example of the form of fallacious argumentation known as Straw Man. In such arguments, the speaker first builds a ...
Yahoo: Letters to the editor: Straw man, powerful words and embracing truth