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To: Ilaine who wrote (132264)	8/14/2005 10:21:13 AM
From: Lane3	of 793759

A straw man isn't the opening gambit in an argument. Actually, FYI, it can be in certain contexts. I was first introduced to the term in the context of system or policy design and used it that way for decades. Its best application is as an intentionally vulnerable first draft--to give team participants something more than a clean chalk board to start with, to get the ball rolling. I always used the term that way on SI until I realized that others were using your definition. So I think the confusion over it is legitimate. "Decision making A "straw-man proposal" is a simple draft proposal intended to generate discussion of its disadvantages and to provoke the generation of new and better proposals. As the document is revised, it may be given other edition names such as "stone-man", "iron-man", and so on, etc." en.wikipedia.org

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