I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...

Jo Ann Rebane’s Opinion piece “What’s wrong with DEI? (The Union 6/18/25) is a master example of the form of fallacious argumentation known as Straw Man. In such arguments, the speaker first builds a ...

I was humored by Trudy Knowles’ use of the “strawman” fallacy to try to refute my wife’s argument against mask mandates (Letters to the Editor, The Westfield News, Dec. 24, page 4). I will assume Ms.

This is not an opinion column — as far as I can tell — but terms come up in contexts that intrigue me. The most recent is a “straw man.” It came up in a commentary on National Public Radio that stated ...