In article .com,
Andy
Evans wrote:
My "straw man argument" detector just triggered. :-) Slainte, Jim

I was hoping for something along the lines of:

"carefully presenting and refuting a weakened form of an opponent's
argument is not always itself a fallacy. Instead, it restricts the scope
of the opponent's argument, either to where the argument is no longer
relevant or as a step of a proof by exhaustion".

It is not a "weakened form" to write an opinion of your own and then
pretend it was what someone else wrote. I wrote what I meant, you
made up something else to argue with.

Slainte,

Jim

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