Myaxdracogo Myaxdracogo English Answered What is the strawman fallacy? * Where you present limited choices as the only choices, when in fact, additional options do exist. An argument that because someone in a position on assumed authority has said something, it must be true. An argument that is misrepresented or simplified so that it is easier to discredit. A criticism where, instead of criticizing the argument or ideas of a person with whom you are conversing, you criticize the person themselves. Calls into question the purity or actualness of something as a way to refute an argument.