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Concerns formal (syllogistic) fallacies, informal (rhetorical) fallacies, tactical misdirection, and errors in logic or reasoning more broadly put.

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Name of fallacy: amplifying weakness of weak arguments while ignoring strong ones

This is known as a weak man argument, inspired by the phrase 'straw man'.
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