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“Straw-manning is a version of in-other-wordsing. But it’s also possible to in-other-words someone’s argument not to make it seem simplistic but to indicate that she holds views belonging to your adversary, to your outgroup.”

“Someone points at an argument and someone else replies, ‘In other words, you’re saying…’ And inevitably the argument, when put in other words, is revealed to be vacuous or wicked.”