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Steelmanning

Week 5 · Treating people well · Read it and try its questions now

A straw man is the weakest, sloppiest version of a view, built so you can knock it over.

Could You Have Done Otherwise?

Week 37 · Who are you, and are you free? · Read it and try its questions now

Frankfurt argued you can be responsible without being able to do otherwise; Strawson grounded blame in our feelings.

Straw man

Fallacy · Changing the subject · Lesson: Steelmanning

Replacing someone’s argument with a weaker or more extreme version, then knocking that down.