The Straw Man Fallacy is a logical fallacy where an argument is presented as being supported by an appeal to an irrelevant, imaginary, or unrepresentative example.

It's like arguing that all strawberries are red because one strawberry in a field of 1,000 is red. It's like saying that all cats are black because you saw one black cat in a field of 10,000 cats. It's like... well, you get the idea.

This fallacy is often used to make an argument seem more convincing than it actually is.

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