Straw Men, Weak Men, and Hollow Men

Argumentation 25 (1):87-105 (2011)
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Three forms of the straw man fallacy are posed: the straw, weak, and hollow man. Additionally, there can be non-fallacious cases of any of these species of straw man arguments

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