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Episode #073 ... How To Win An Argument Pt. 1

Philosophize This!

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The Straw Man Fallacy

Straw man fallacy is committed when somebody takes your argument and paints a cartoonish, simplified, ridiculous version of the argument in an attempt to have an easy target to attack. Ad hominum is where people attack you personally in an attempts to discredit the source of the information so that they don't have to argue against what you're actually saying. The slippery slope point is mischaracterizing an idea and making it into a worse arg that's easy to refute is much easier than actually understanding the issues fully and refuting a more nuanced argument.

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