Strawperson
nounid
5115·updated Aug 28, 2026verified
a fallacious argument which irrelevantly attacks a position that appears similar to, but is actually different from, an opponent's position, and concludes that the opponent's real position has thereby been refuted.
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Unknown95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Strawpersons
- possessive
- Strawperson's
- pluralpossessive
- Strawpersons'
Framework definitions
- §1
- a fallacious argument which irrelevantly attacks a position that appears similar to, but is actually different from, an opponent's position, and concludes that the opponent's real position has thereby been refuted.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- a fallacious argument which irrelevantly attacks a position that appears similar to, but is actually different from, an opponent's position, and concludes that the opponent's real position has thereby been refuted.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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