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Re: Spy plane (was: Why is religion so hot?)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:16:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> "Troll" is of course common Internet parlance for a person who posts in a
> manner apparently specifically intended to produce heated and emotional
> responses.
Right. Thanks. Is that 'common' as in 'used by the common folk?' by the
way? No, must stop it. :)
> "Straw Man" is a long-standing term for the rhetorical falacy of
> picking your opponent's weakest argument and attacking it as if it were your
> opponent's only argument. In so doing, you create the illusion that you've
> defeated your opponent, but you've no more done so than if you'd fought and
> beaten a straw man.
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> Dave!
I learned something today. Marvellous. Anyway, I just wanted to change the
subject as I'm sick of this whole religion/flat earth/new earth/old earth
rubbish that keeps coming around. I'd just like to hear from someone who's
got an opinion they can back up that's not based wholly on over-zealous
patriotism.
Jason
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| (...) And they say that understated humour is lost on the Internet...;) (...) I'm not sure what's patriotic or not patriotic about any of that. Partisan, perhaps, and occasionally pedestrian. ;) best Lindsay (Besides, you can just look at the old (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) "Troll" is of course common Internet parlance for a person who posts in a manner apparently specifically intended to produce heated and emotional responses. "Straw Man" is a long-standing term for the rhetorical falacy of picking your (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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