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    22 OCT 2013

     The Steel Man Argument

    Sometimes the term "steel man" is used to refer to a position's or argument's improved form. A straw man is a misrepresentation of someone's position or argument that is easy to defeat: a "steel man" is an improvement of someone's position or argument that is harder to defeat than their originally stated position or argument.
    Folksonomies: debate
    Folksonomies: debate
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    Contrasts with the straw man, work from an idealized articulation of your opponent's viewpoint and try to improve upon it.

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