On 27 Dec 2003 23:24:47 GMT, Fred Garvin <Garvin@Truss.net> wrote:

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He inferring that you're s stupid bastard.

Ad hominem alert!

He's right.

He's got a faliure of reasoning.

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/f/fallacies.htm#Ad%20Hominem

A fallacy is a kind of error in reasoning. The alphabetical list below
provides explanations and examples of 157 of the most common fallacies.
Fallacies should not be persuasive, but they often are. Sometimes reasoners
produce a fallacy unintentionally, but on other occasions the intent is to
mislead others. The vast majority of the commonly identified fallacies
involve arguments, although some involve explanations, or definitions, or
other products of reasoning. Sometimes the term "fallacy" is used even more
broadly to indicate any false belief or cause of a false belief. The list
below includes some fallacies of this sort, but most of its fallacies
involve errors of reasoning, and among the errors of reasoning, the emphasis
is on errors in arguing informally in natural language.