The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #94165   Message #1859441
Posted By: Don Firth
15-Oct-06 - 01:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Has Walmart been defeated?
Subject: RE: BS: Has Walmart been defeated?
Okay, Old Guy, so you make some kind of assertion—or more likely, cut-and-paste something you found on a Right-wing blog (without crediting the source, of course)—then someone refutes your assertion, or points out the factual boo-boos of your cut-and-paste, then amends the refutation with the observation that you apparently don't read things very carefully. Then you try to maintain that the refutation is invalid because their post contains what you deem a personal attack—or an "ad hominem attack" (Gee! Latin! How intellectual!), which it is not.

Clumsy, Odd Guy, very clumsy.

(Now watch him call this and "ad hominem attack.")

["Your argument is wrong because you are an idiot!" is the fallacy of the argumentum ad hominem.   "Your argument is wrong for the following reason or reasons (followed by details). And, incidentally, you are a idiot!" is not the fallacy of the argumentum ad hominem. The personal remark is not part of the refutation, therefore does not invalidate it.]

Don Firth