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from: Doug Laidlaw laidlaws{at}my
date: 2005-03-06 08:56:00
subject: Re: Looking for `reasoned discourse`

Doug Anderson wrote:

> dg411{at}FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andre Lieven) writes:
>
>> Doug Anderson (ethelthelogremovethis{at}yahoo.com) writes:
>> > dg411{at}FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andre Lieven) writes:
>> >
>> >> Doug Anderson (ethelthelogremovethis{at}yahoo.com) evades and
>> >> ad homs:
>> >
>> > (snip rest of ravings)
>>
>> Translation: " As I could not refute what he wrote, I made it go
>> away, so that my failure to refute would be less noticable. "
>
> You haven't presented any arguments, so there is really nothing to
> refute.

Sorry guys, I wish that I hadn't started this.

No, "ad hominem" doesn't mean "unsupported argument"
but it is usually the
resort of those who can't support their arguments.

Doug L.
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