I think there may be confusion between strawmen and stalking horses. Mark
--- JAY JG jayjg@hotmail.com wrote:
Ex, you are making a strawhorse argument. You
are trying
to deligitimize my basic argument by focusing on
one
example sentence that doesn't even exist in any
article!
Is the word strawman/strawhorse argument a purely
wikimedia thing,
because i had never heard the phrase before i
subscribed to these
lists?
Strawman argument is commonly used outside of Wikipedia. I've never heard of a strawhorse argument before.
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