From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon May 17 2004 - 14:11:39 BST
Mark H:
> Boys, boys, boys...
>
> I feel Platt's misuse of the phrase "ad hominem attack" is my fault.
> I brought it up a while back in his dismissal of Noam Chomsky as a
> valid source of ideas. He now uses it whenever anyone, usually in
> exasperation, says anything slightly negative about his thought
> processes.
There are two types of ad hominem attacks, abusive and circumstantial.
Calling someone stupid is abusive and totally irrelevant to the logic of his
argument.
Platt
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