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No. A strawman is when you give your opponent an argument other than the one s/he is making and refute that instead of the real argument. In other words, you created a strawman and knocked him down, claiming victory while the real man remained standing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman



Quoting out of context is in there as well.




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