Straw man (disambiguation)
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Straw man is a rhetorical technique (also classified as a logical fallacy) based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.
Straw man may also refer to:
- A reclaimable personal account according to the Redemption movement
- Straw man (dummy), a dummy made from straw
- Straw man (law), in law, a third party that acts as a "front" in a transaction
- Straw man (literature), in literature, a symbol for people regarded as lacking needed qualities
- Straw man proposal, in business and software development, a simple draft proposal intended to generate discussion
- Straw Man (comics), a Marvel Comics character originally called "The Scarecrow"
- "Strawman", a Lou Reed song from the 1989 album New York
- A humanoid figure woven from plant stems, in the manner of a Corn dolly
See also
- A Man of Straw, a 1958 Italian film
- Der Untertan (Man of Straw), a novel by Heinrich Mann
- Scarecrow
- The Straw Men, a 2002 novel by Michael Marshall