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A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy.

Straw man or strawman may also refer to:

General

• Straw man (dummy), a dummy made from straw from which the other concepts take their names
• Craterocephalus stramineus, a species of fish

Law and commerce

• Straw man (law), in law, a third party that acts as a front in a transaction
• Straw man proposal, in business and software development, a simple draft proposal to generate discussion
• Strawman theory, a pseudolegal theory in the sovereign citizen, tax protester, freeman, and redemption movements

Publications

• Straw Man (novel), a 1951 novel by Doris Miles Disney
• The Straw Man, a 1957 novel by Jean Giono
• Straw Man (comics), a 1975 Marvel Comics character
• Straw Men (novel), a 2001 novel by Martin J. Smith
• The Straw Men, a 2002 novel by Michael Marshall

Film

• The Straw Man (film), a 1953 British film
• Strawman (film), a 1987 Taiwanese film

Music

• "Strawman", a 1989 song by Lou Reed from New York
• "Straw Man", a 2019 song by Silversun Pickups from Widow's Weeds

See also

• Corn dolly, a humanoid figure woven from plant stems
• Man of Straw
• Scarecrow (disambiguation)
• Der Untertan, a 1918 novel by Heinrich Mann
• Der Untertan (film), a 1951 East German film
• Wicker man (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages