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strawman fallacy and secundum quid

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Original Question

I was wondering whether strawman fallacy is another name for secundum quid. They both involve oversimplification. Do I understand it correctly? Thank you very much.

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Secundum quid is more synonymous with the accident fallacy . Have a look at this definition and examples and you can see the differences.

I'd put it under a hasty generalization (fallacy of insufficient statistics, fallacy of insufficient sample, fallacy of the lonely fact, leaping to a conclusion, hasty induction, converse accident), e.g., basing a broad conclusion on a small sample.

Firstly there are quite a few fallacies involving oversimplification or overly simple thought processes- causal reductionism, hasty generalisation, secundum quid, and sometimes the strawman fallacy, among others. But that leads to my next point.


A strawman may involve making a simple argument more complicated too, so it seems unrealistic or lofty. The outcome is to misrepresent the argument, however that misrepresentation comes about.

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