Origin Straw_man
u.s. president william mckinley has shot cannon (labeled mckinley s letter) has involved straw man , constructors (carl schurz, oswald garrison villard, richard olney) in great explosion. caption: s m a s h e d !, harper s weekly, september 22, 1900
as fallacy, identification , name of straw man arguments of relatively recent date, although aristotle makes remarks suggest similar concern; douglas walton identified first inclusion of can find in textbook informal fallacy in stuart chase s guides straight thinking 1956 (p. 40). however, hamblin s classic text fallacies (1970) neither mentions distinct type, nor historical term.
the term s origins unclear. usage of term in rhetoric suggests human figure made of straw easy knock down or destroy—such military training dummy, scarecrow, or effigy. common folk etymology refers men stood outside courthouses straw in shoe signal willingness false witness.
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