Coordinated Mass sexual assaults in Cologne

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(01-07-2016, 10:49 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: No. It was a red herring.

Damn it. I looked it up and everything and still got it wrong:

Quote:The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" has the following pattern:

Quote:

1. Person A has position X.
2. Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X).
3. Person B attacks position Y.
4. Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.
   

This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply does not constitute an attack on the position itself.