<P> Straw man tactics in the United Kingdom can be known as an Aunt Sally, after a pub game of the same name, where patrons threw sticks or battens at a post to knock off a skittle balanced on top . </P> <P> As a fallacy, the identification and name of straw man arguments are of relatively recent date, although Aristotle makes remarks that suggest a similar concern; Douglas Walton identified "the first inclusion of it we can find in a textbook as an informal fallacy" in Stuart Chase's Guides to Straight Thinking from 1956 (p. 40). However, Hamblin's classic text Fallacies (1970) neither mentions it as a distinct type, nor even as a historical term . </P> <P> The term's origins are unclear . The usage of the term in rhetoric suggests a human figure made of straw that is easy to knock down or destroy--such as a military training dummy, scarecrow, or effigy . A common folk etymology is that it refers to men who stood outside courthouses with a straw in their shoe to signal their willingness to be a false witness . </P> <P> The straw man fallacy occurs in the following pattern of argument: </P>

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