From: Samantha (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 12:48:00 MDT
Not to pick on Keith or anyone else, but why the heck are we wasting
our priceless time *again* on something so mundane?
-s
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 10:15 am, you wrote:
> > At 08:04 AM 5/7/03 -0400, gts wrote:
> > >If
> > >I spit on the sidewalk and some passerby sees me and calls me a
> > > bum then he is making an implied ad hominem argument
>
> 'Ad hominem' is the term given to one of two kinds of fallacious
> *objections* to an argument. X is false because Y, where Y is one
> or more facts about the person asserting X. Or, X is false because
> Y, where Y is one more facts about the circumstances of the person
> asserting X. There is no such thing as a positive ad hominem
> assertion except as it is an objection to some other assertion.
>
> Keith
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