People may use a straw man to discredit theories to which they do not subscribe.
Whether or not this is truly an example of the straw man fallacy, I found it refreshing to see a student applying logical reasoning learned in another of his courses to the problem at hand.
The production of straw man is very simple. The straw man has head and hands. He wears straw hat on his head and knots a broken cattail fan on his hand. When the wind blows the cattail fan, it shakes with the wind.
The straw man is used in countless other contexts as well.
One might be to arrange for a straw man to win the election and then step down, paving the way for Mr Putin to return triumphantly in a snap election.
The reader is left feeling a straw man has been dissected.
