I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...

Straw man fallacy is a mistaken belief, especially based on unsound arguments. It, therefore, renders an argument invalid. A straw man fallacy occurs when someone takes another person's argument or ...

Jo Ann Rebane’s Opinion piece “What’s wrong with DEI? (The Union 6/18/25) is a master example of the form of fallacious argumentation known as Straw Man. In such arguments, the speaker first builds a ...

I hope FT readers see Stuart Kirk’s tirades for what they are: mental workouts with a pugnacious sparring partner, useful for training them in argument. A master of rhetoric, he bombards the reader ...