📚 noun • entry_id 29059
straw man
Meanings (ES + gloss)
espantapájaros
A doll or scarecrow, particularly one stuffed with straw.
hombre de paja
An innocuous person or someone of nominal or lesser importance, as a front man or straw boss.
argucia
An insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument, particularly one deliberately set up to be weakly supported, e.g. by misrepresenting an opponent's argument by broadening or narrowing the scope of a premise, so that it can be easily knocked down; especially to impugn the strength of any related or contrasted thing or idea.
This Euler inequality recurs as either the cornerstone or the straw man in many theories contained in this book.
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