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 ...
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 ...
What is the Ad Hominem Fallacy? The ad hominem fallacy occurs when someone attacks the person making an argument rather than the argument itself. This fallacy diverts attention from the actual issue ...
Your editorial “Careful reform” (January 9) contained some surprisingly glaring logical errors. Your “first” point, creating the foundation of your argument, was that, “the fact that a demonstration ...
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