On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:38:28 -0700, Stuart Grey wrote:

Curly Surmudgeon wrote:

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:31:19 -0700, Stuart Grey wrote:

Curly Surmudgeon wrote:

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:06:09 +0000, Ed Conrad wrote:

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What a sad, sad, sad, sad  joke!

By the logic of Intelligent Design the Internal Revenue Service is godly.

Tax codes are unfathomable, unknowable, and irreduceable.

Bow down and grovel every April 15th.

-- Regards, Curly

So, you steal your material from the funny pages?

Typical liberal. If there's no cartoon, they don't get the message.

Is your only tool an ad homenim?


-- Regards, Curly

Ad homenim, or Argumentum ad hominem, is the logical fallicy of making 
an irrelevant attack on the person.

In this case, I'm not saying you're wrong about intelligent design being 
a bogus, I'm arguing that you plagerized a comic strip.

No, you made an erroneous accusation.  That was an ad homenim.  I
plagerized from a private bbs.

It is not a logical fallicy to "attack" someone for plagerizing a comic 
strip if the argument is they plagerized a comic strip.

Yes, it is still an ad homenim.  Your attack has nothing to do with the
thread, it's an attack on the author.  That's an ad homenim.

I hope this gives you a better idea of what is and what isn't an 
argumentum ad hominem.

Look up the term, then stay on topic and quit distracting.

-- Regards, Curly
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