On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Pedro Lino <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand the straw-man concept
Since that is a common rhetorical tools: "A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man Here the straw-man is to replace 'regression should be a high priority' with 'we should not ship unless the regression counter is 0' ... which incidentally is exactly what you explain after saying 'I'm not sure I understand the straw-man concept' .. so, in fact, you did understand, you just did not know there is a name for it. :-) Norbert _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
