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To: donh
An insult is not necessarily an Ad Hominem.

I know precisely what an ad hominem is and I called it accurately.

do you have trouble understanding why a biology professor might find your dismissive opinions of his entire profession irksome enough to respond to in kind?

Well, in kind would mean to demonstrate that mathematics was low-order thinking.

441 posted on 11/27/2005 1:57:59 PM PST by AmishDude (Your corporate slogan could be here! FReepmail me for my confiscatory rates.)
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To: AmishDude
uWell, in kind would mean to demonstrate that mathematics was low-order thinking.

Where's your formal proof that biology is a "lower order" of thinking than mathematics?

449 posted on 11/27/2005 2:07:43 PM PST by donh
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To: AmishDude
I know precisely what an ad hominem is and I called it accurately.

Really? To what argument, precisely, was his Ad hominem response aimed, in place of a responsive argument?

451 posted on 11/27/2005 2:10:48 PM PST by donh
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