straw man in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for straw man in the English»French Dictionary

straw [Brit strɔː, Am strɔ] N

I.man <pl men> [Brit man, Am mæn] N

1. man (adult male):

a leg/bum man inf
mon vieux! inf

III.man [Brit man, Am mæn] INTERJ

IV.man <pres part manning; pret, pp manned> [Brit man, Am mæn] VB trans

straw man in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for straw man in the English»French Dictionary

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It had 30 attendees, and featured the burning of a straw man built on site.
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Examples of such erroneous criticisms based on this straw man argument abound in the medical literature.
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The straw man represented her new sweetheart and had a note pinned to it.
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Fortunately, the laugh was on her when several students thanked me for shooing the solicitor and her straw man away.
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On the one hand, there are philosophers who deny that mental states are linguistic in nature and see this as a straw man argument.
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Don't know what you're on about with this straw man argument.
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Much of what you state here is speculation and a bit straw man-y, though -- sorry.
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In this approach to logic, fallacies such as the straw man, red herring etc. point to a deficiency in the premises in one of these three criteria.
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Some other scientists however argue the implication that many (or most) adaptionists are panglossians is a straw man.
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According to the theory, the government created a fictitious person (or straw man) corresponding to each newborn citizen with bank accounts initially holding $630,000.
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