[lit-ideas] Re: Can't have a gun? Get a dog

Ah, so that's what you meant.  Well, what I said wasn't a strawman.  It was
to show the absurdity of Andreas statement. I intended a reduction ad
absurdum.  Viz. If you don't need to show a dominant dog that you are
dominant, that leaves him dominant.  Of course no one is teaching that you
don't need to dominate a dominant dog.  It would be absurd to think so.
That is what I said albeit too subtly by far, apparently.

 

Lawrence

 

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I wrote:

 

> The straw man is the notion that anybody was arguing that anyone here 

> might recommend a method of training in which the dog was taught to be 

> dominant.

 

I've written clearer sentences. The straw man is the notion that anyone 

here might recommend a method of training, etc.

 

Robert Paul

(I'm out of here)

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