Chris is a master of confronting people with whom he disagrees. One of his favorite techniques is to pick the weakest of his opponent's reasons and then to refute it. He thinks that by doing that he has shown that his opponent's claims are mistaken. By using this tactic Chris is actually engaging in __________.

A) an appeal to emotion
B) a straw man fallacy
C) the bandwagon fallacy
D) circular reasoning
E) an ad hominem attack

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maryam akbar · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : B, Explanation :  Chris is using the straw man fallacy by deliberately misrepresenting his opponent's argument as weaker than it actually is and then refuting that misrepresentation rather than engaging with the actual argument.

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