I give up, after many, many years!
On May 13, 7:17*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
More_Flaps wrote :
On May 13, 6:16*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
More_Flaps wrote
innews:1d5a7be3-2bc1-461d-ac47-c4e9
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On May 13, 10:37*am, Le Chaud Lapin wrote:
On May 12, 5:11*pm, More_Flaps wrote:
On May 13, 9:51*am, Mxsmanic wrote:
More_Flaps writes:
I think you are MXing up an ad hominem with simple personal
attack.
Same thing.
Nope.
Not to nit-pick, but:
"Ad hominem has also recently acquired a use as a noun denoting
personal attacks, as in "Notwithstanding all the ad hominem,
Gingrich insists that he and Panetta can work together"
(Washington Post)"
Here you go, a better definition than the washington pist:
"Ad hominem arguments are always invalid in syllogistic logic,
since the truth value of premises is taken as given, and the
validity of a logical inference is independent of the person making
the inference. However, ad hominem arguments are rarely presented
as formal syllogisms, and their assessment lies in the domain of
informal logic and the theory of evidence.[1] The theory of
evidence depends to a large degree on assessments of the
credibility of witnesses, including eyewitness evidence and expert
witness evidence. Evidence that a purported eyewitness is
unreliable, or has a motive for lying, or that a purported expert
witness lacks the claimed expertise can play a major role in making
judgements from evidence. Argumentum ad hominem is the inverse of
argumentum ad verecundiam, in which the arguer bases the truth
value of an assertion on the authority, knowledge or position of
the person asserting it. Hence, while an ad hominem argument may
make an assertion less compelling, by showing that the person
making the assertion does not have the authority, knowledge or
position they claim, or has made mistaken assertions on similar
topics in the past, it cannot provide an infallible
counterargument."
Cheers
The guy who wrote that is an asshole.
You know him/her?
Cheers
I'm a pearl before swine..
Sorry, I thought you were being a "master troll". In any case, that
should be an opal before bunyi.
Cheers
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