Straw man fallacy is a mistaken belief, especially based on unsound arguments. It, therefore, renders an argument invalid. A straw man fallacy occurs when someone takes another person's argument or ...

Rich Lowry, in his article (March 26) denouncing Bernie Sanders’ proposal to establish a four-day workweek, sums up his point at the end by saying, “Sanders’ idea is a frank expression of economic ...

I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...

Jo Ann Rebane’s Opinion piece “What’s wrong with DEI? (The Union 6/18/25) is a master example of the form of fallacious argumentation known as Straw Man. In such arguments, the speaker first builds a ...

Have you ever heard of the phrase, “War on Christmas?” It’s a common exaggeration made by those who perceive a societal change from people saying “Merry Christmas” to now saying “Happy Holidays.” An ...

City pastor Joseph Kabuleta is running for president. No, not of the ‘Prophet’ Elvis Mbonye fan club. Mr Kabuleta is angling for the presidency of Uganda. On the Beaufort scale, however, his ...

Your editorial “Careful reform” (January 9) contained some surprisingly glaring logical errors. Your “first” point, creating the foundation of your argument, was that, “the fact that a demonstration ...

I hope FT readers see Stuart Kirk’s tirades for what they are: mental workouts with a pugnacious sparring partner, useful for training them in argument. A master of rhetoric, he bombards the reader ...

Please permit me to comment on a letter by Mr Ruel Johnson (SN January 6, 2016: `It is good to show we are capable of clemency but first we must show we can deliver justice’.) That letter was partly ...