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To: combjelly who wrote (477947)	5/5/2009 1:47:51 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577829

CJ, > I never claimed you said it, which is essential to a straw man. No it isn't: en.wikipedia.org > A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position. All you have to do is create an imaginary opposing argument. Whether you claimed I said it or not is irrelevant. All you need to do is refute the imaginary argument. > Now, you might have had a case if you maintained I was setting up a reductio ad absurdem argument and claimed there was an implied argument there. Learn to Wiki: en.wikipedia.org > Reductio ad absurdum (Latin: "reduction to the absurd") is a form of argument in which a proposition is disproven by following its implications to a logical but absurd consequence. There was nothing "logical" with the way you twisted my argument. Face it, you were caught making a straw man argument. Tenchusatsu