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Originally Posted by Frownland
Do you really or are you moving the goalposts now?
Oooh ja, a fallacy within a fallacy. That makes me hard.
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from wikipedia:
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A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument which was not advanced by that opponent.[1]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
so to answer your question: yes. not only does he have to disagree with you, he has to attribute those statements to your argument. neither of which were implicit in his post.
frownland loses