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To: markomalley
Simply including an ad hominem attack

Susie La Barre would make a good stripper name.

5 posted on 09/24/2013 6:43:55 PM PDT by PAR35 (i)
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To: PAR35
Isn't that ad feminum.?
14 posted on 09/24/2013 6:54:53 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And yet remain evil. To me shall Fëanor come soon.)
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To: PAR35

No doubt.

But I would like to air a pet peeve. The phrase “ad hominem attack” is a degenerate form, and I would say a vulgarisation, of the original idea of an “ad hominem argument”.

“Ad hominem” means “to the man”, not “against the man”, and it originally meant an argument tailored to a particular audience. For instance, if speaking to an audience of astronomers one might include rhetorical references to stars and galaxies and other astronomical objects. Galileo actually used the term ( ad hominem ) in a sense close to this.

I think the particular meaning we have today arose because of one form of arguing “to the man” in a debate before an audience. One might try to sway the audience by ridiculing the opposing debater, suggesting that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, etc. We can suppose that this sure-fire formula would be widely practiced and become familiar to all as the “ad hominem attack”.


36 posted on 09/24/2013 7:21:49 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: PAR35

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/heyho.wav


47 posted on 09/24/2013 7:43:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: PAR35

La Bare was the name of a strip joint where women went to see men take it off.


61 posted on 09/25/2013 12:24:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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