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Rare card · History
Straw man, a Rare card
A straw man fallacy is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 111
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 280,000
Power 111 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Straw man quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Straw man card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "______ a straw man".
Answer
attacking. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man". From the Straw man article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Jake Lang. Jake Lang 690,000 · Straw man 280,000 · Carlo Ponti 200,000 · 2000 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election 350 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".
- The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition and the subsequent refutation of that false argument, instead of the opponent's proposition.
- Straw man arguments have been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly regarding highly charged emotional subjects.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Straw man article was read about 280,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Straw man
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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- Jim AbbottRare · Society · ATK 64 DEF 47
- Rick AdelmanRare · Society · ATK 68 DEF 43
- Todd GoldenRare · Society · ATK 66 DEF 45
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Straw man (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : William Allen Rogers, scanned by Bob Burkhardt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
