straw herring


when an argument is reb-tted by saying it is both a ‘red herring’ and a ‘straw man.’ (usually done at different times.) as the two fallacies are incongruent, this term itself will eventually be incorporated into informal logic as a fallacy.
my opponent’s counter argument is a straw herring. first he claims my example is an irrelevant distraction from the topic, (red herring)then goes on to -ssert i created it using his words out of context so i could attack this erroneous extrapolation of his words and then declare victory. (straw man)

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