On 12 Dec 2003 14:53:06 GMT ackatyu (Wdtabor) wrote:

In article QjaCb.182$pY.74@fed1read04, "R. Hubbell"
writes:


You know, your platitudes are getting tiresome.

Insults are a sign of a lack of an argument. Ad hominem.



You're misusing Ad Hominem.

If I said, "Because Hubbell says X=1, X must equal something other than 1,"
that would be an Ad Hominem argument, that the statement is false simply
because of your advocacy of that position.

Ad Hominem would not include the statement "Hubbell is insufficiently grounded
in reality to determine the value of X." That would be a personal insult, but
not an Ad Hominem argument.


Actually you've got it wrong. But it doesn't change the fact that people
without an argument or no further thing to say will resort to insults.

Or they may try to steer the discussion away from the topic.

R. Hubbell


Don

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