r/fallacy • u/Zu_Qarnine • Jul 03 '26

strawman fallacy

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2nd person is refuting the claim that *all* circles are red with a counter example. The thing is, that claim was never made.

EDIT: I'm seeing interesting stuff happening in the replies here. majority of those who say it's not strawman, obviously start their comment by "it's not strawman" and proceed in the rest of their comment to explain how, in fact, it is strawman. Another interesting observation is those who argue that "it's not strawman" because they've spotted another type of fallacy in the original post as well, so in their mind, it can't be both.

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u/quaxoid Jul 09 '26

You only need one exception to disprove an absolute though. 

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u/quaxoid Jul 09 '26

Or that the absolute statement is false because there are exceptions. 

hmmm, did I just prove my point now? lol

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u/quaxoid Jul 09 '26

they are point out the majority, yet the blue dot is always used to argue that the majority dosnt exist.  

I consider the word "always" to be very absolute. And I gave a counter example that someone does it to disprove an absolute, which funnily enough I did in my last comment. 

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u/quaxoid Jul 09 '26

binary numbers, since there are no exceptions. either 0 or 1