-=> Ed Hulett wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 EH>> Since that is all you do WRT anyone right of Mao, you have no standing
 EH>> to lecture anyone on this issue.

 DD> What? Post a definition of ad hominem? Remind people of what is going on?

 EH> If you think your attacks on me or anyone else here is not ad hom, you
 EH> are seriously delusional.

 DD> BTW - the statement "Since that is all you do WRT anyone right
of Mao" is
 DD> a scurrilous lie and merely your opinion - which probably smells as bad
 DD> as your breath after a hard night of boozing with your boyfriends.

 EH> Your "hard night of boozing with your boyfriends" comment is a
 EH> scurrilous lie. I neither drink or have "boyfriends."

Too bad, You might have had a personality - and some friends. Are all your
friends girls?
 
 EH> You are full of ad hom.

I doubt that you know or understand the meaning of the term ... so, in the
interests (but not hope) of educating you, here goes ....

An ad hominem, also known as argumentum ad hominem  (Latin: "argument toward
the person" or "argument against the person"), is an attempt
to persuade which
links the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief of the person
advocating the premise. The ad hominem is a classic logical fallacy.

Ad hominem circumstantial points out that someone is in circumstances such that
he is disposed to take a particular position. Ad hominem circumstantial
constitutes an attack on the bias of a source. This is fallacious because a
disposition to make a certain argument does not make the argument false; this
overlaps with the genetic fallacy (an argument that a claim is incorrect due to
its source).

Where the source taking a position seeks to convince us by a claim of
authority, or personal observation, observation of their circumstances may
reduce the evidentiary weight of the claims, sometimes to zero.

Gratuitous verbal abuse or "name-calling" itself is not an argumentum ad
hominem or a logical fallacy. The fallacy only occurs if personal attacks are
employed instead of an argument to devalue an argument by attacking the
peaker.

Just for your education, entertainment and aggrandisement. Fiddle-dee-dee, old
sod.

ENJOY!!!

From Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
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