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Part 3.
Tomorrow's installment is a twofer - the appeal to emotion, and the apeal to force.
2 posted on
12/21/2003 6:00:28 AM PST by
general_re
("You shouldn't treat people like objects. They aren't that valuable." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: general_re
Why don't we invite Lazamataz and Texas_Dawg to this thread for the lab practical?
I suppose general_re is at church this morning...
5 posted on
12/21/2003 8:09:33 AM PST by
Tijeras_Slim
(Saddam looked like he could use a "Baath Party".)
To: general_re
I am way, way too busy/lazy to drag out Aristotle, but will remind you that he said (in his
Rhetoric) that the reason people use fallacious arguments is because they work.
Human beings are persuaded both by reason and emotion. We instinctively reject arguments from people we dislike or distrust. Thus, the argumentum ad hominem works on that level.
To: general_re
ping
10 posted on
12/21/2003 9:10:25 PM PST by
CatoRenasci
(Ceterum Censeo [Gallia][Germania][Arabia] Esse Delendam --- Select One or More as needed)
To: general_re
So Ad Hominem (unrelated to Ad Eminem) means, NAME CALLING?
12 posted on
12/21/2003 10:25:49 PM PST by
GeronL
(Saddam is out of the hole and into the quagmire!)
To: Hank Kerchief
Ping
15 posted on
12/22/2003 4:31:42 AM PST by
P.O.E.
To: general_re; Fzob; P.O.E.; PeterPrinciple; reflecting; DannyTN; FourtySeven; x; dyed_in_the_wool; ...
PHILOSOPHY PING
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Ad hominem fallacy - (against the man). Ad hominem is the attempt to impugn an argument by attacking the arguer's character, motives, personality, intentions, or qualifications.
(Note: Insulting, denigrating, or impugning the character or morality of an individual, in itself, however reprehensible, is not necessarily an "ad hominem," as is frequently and falsely alleged. It is an ad hominem only if the personal attacks are used within the scope of a logical argument.)
Example: "Harry couldn't possibly know what good food is, he was raised in England." The ad hominem is only implied, that being from England disqualifies someone from making good judgement about cuisine. The attacks are usually more vituperative than this example.
Hank
To: general_re
When a circumstantial ad hominem argument explicitly or implicitly charges the opponents with inconsistency (among their beliefs, or between what they profess and what they practice), that is clearly one kind of abuseWhat if the opponent's beliefs really are inconsistent in some relevant aspect? If a logical case can be made, why would that be an example of ad hominem abuse?
Cordially,
21 posted on
12/22/2003 11:53:58 AM PST by
Diamond
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