To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Straw man
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:43:47 +0100
Here's a pertinent example for pc taken from the Oxford Companion to
philosophy;
Against someone who has taken a 'green' position, an opponent might
construct a 'straw man fallacy' by suggesting that she, in wanting to make
the earth into a natural place like it was hundreds of years ago, would
require the elimination of industrial production.
-----Original Message-----
From: Claude Genest [mailto:genest@together.net]
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 2:18 AM
To: permaculture
Subject: Straw man
I don't know what a straw-mam is, can someone tell me please ?