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More valuable lessons to be learned here. This is a fallacy commonly used by many debaters. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the....No, of course. You lied from the start, your every statement is questionable. It's better not to trust a single word coming from you.
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A straw man is a form of argument and an informalfallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not presented by that opponent. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man."
Strawman Fallacy
Description: Substituting a person’s actual position or argument with a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of the position of the argument.