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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (36367)4/30/1999 3:46:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
Yes, I agree, it is an attack on you, and not a logical defense of a position. But I understood the fallacy of argumentum ad hominem to be something more than that. I thought that it was a way of attacking one's opponent in order to show that his argument is wrong. FT just attacked you as a person, without reference to your argument.

Here are a couple of examples in a little logic book I had handy:

"The so-called theories of Einstein are merely the ravings of a mind polluted with liberal, democratic nonsense which is utterly unacceptable to German men of science."

"The theory of a relativistic universe is the hostile work of the agents of facism. It is the revolting propaganda of a moribund, counterrevolutionary ideology."

The first, by the way, is from a Nazi exponent of "Nordic Science," the second from a Soviet astronomical journal. Both from 1940.
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