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Strawman

The first of the series of DoD requirements that led to Ada (Woodenman, Tinman, Ironman, Steelman). Strawman was produced by the HOLWG in Apr 1975.

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Although some of these researchers fall into the traps of strawman fallacy and converse error, that doesn't mean their advice is useless.

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Perhaps, the government intends this outcome in order to create another strawman to attack by suggesting that the opposition is not cooperating in implementing the Lokpal Act."

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First he throws up a strawman. It doesn't have to be well formed or even true, it's his opinion stated as fact.

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The FA scam created large but spurious tax refunds via fictitious business expense claims based on a purported contract between the taxpayer and their imaginary all uppercase letter name "Strawman" entity.

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At the same time, Kroenig's framing of his argument sets up what many policy analysts may view as a strawman. The notion that assured destruction should be the essence of U.S.

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But contrary to NARAL's strawman attacks, the privately funded Hartford Women's Center is serving the city in a multitude of ways, offering free ultrasounds, pregnancy tests, options counseling, material aid, parenting education, and post-abortive help since 2006.

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It was written by Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, and David Randall, a co-author of the NAS's new report "The Reproducibility Crisis of Modern Science." They are not alleging a "conspiracy" (the strawman argument proffered in the Economist, above).

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These critiques and interrogations are neither careerist nor dependent upon strawman arguments.

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Facebook accidentally revealed its position on the possibility its service would be tapped to help create a registry of Muslim Americans when a spokesperson called the notion of such a thing a "strawman" in an email intended for internal communications that was sent to a (https://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/facebook-trump-muslim-registry?utm_term=.pkGEo8EJK#.dkW76W7Z2) BuzzFeed News reporter.

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Instead, the Humanist publishes a strawman description of the most humanistic candidate to run for the presidency in decades.