The skeptic’s repertoire – A straw man on a slippery slope
Summary There are numerous speech stratagems which can be used to win an argument or influence the audience. Logical fallacies are mistakes in reasoning which make arguments false. The straw man is a fallacy which aims to misrepresent the opponent’s argument in order to more easily refute it. The slippery slope is a fallacy which posits that taking one action […]