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To: longshadow; PatrickHenry; Woahhs; P.O.E.; No More Gore Anymore; jennyp
Part 2. If you want on or off the ping list, let me know.

Tomorrow's installment is everyone's favorite - the argument ad hominem.

2 posted on 12/20/2003 4:44:02 AM PST by general_re ("You shouldn't treat people like objects. They aren't that valuable." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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PING. [This ping list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. FReepmail me to be added or dropped.]
3 posted on 12/20/2003 5:15:59 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: general_re
very interesting, put me on the ping list please

and could you or another Freeper also describe how a real debate works, the kind with real logic.
4 posted on 12/20/2003 5:30:45 AM PST by RobFromGa (Bring Us Your Talented Individuals, Your Visionaries Yearning to Be Free. Keep the Huddled Masses)
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To: general_re

Nice work... did you change the locks to keep general_re out?
5 posted on 12/20/2003 6:09:41 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Saddam looked like he could use a "Baath Party".)
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To: general_re
Tomorrow's installment is everyone's favorite - the argument ad hominem.

Yes! This has been like the Dance of the Seven Veils, where you want someone to wake you up at about veil number 5.

Hope tomorrow's offering is replete with juicy examples.

8 posted on 12/20/2003 8:59:17 AM PST by VadeRetro
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To: general_re
I do hope you include post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

Lawyers' income would quickly collapse without that helpful fallacy.

9 posted on 12/20/2003 9:20:02 AM PST by Mamzelle
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