On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 20:14:31 -0700, Stuart Grey wrote:

Curly Surmudgeon wrote:

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:52:11 -0700, Stuart Grey wrote:

Curly Surmudgeon wrote:

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:

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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.

Clearly, you flunked logic. But then, you wouldn't be a liberal if you 
had passed it.

Add yet another ad homenim.

I think my error was assuming you flunked logic. To flunk logic, you'd 
have to have taken logic. Even someone who failed it would have learned 
SOME of the concepts.

You clearly have never TAKEN logic, and are quite alien to the concept.

Again, "argumentum ad hominem" is a term used in logic to describe the 
logical falicy of an irrelevant attack against the man. I explained this 
up above, when I said that IF the argument is that the man has 
plagerized a comic strip,

Now you're rewriting history:

--------quote----------
So, you steal your material from the funny pages?

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

This is the great thing about the computer age, your words are eternal. 
There was no conditional as you are now trying to fabricate, it's a
clearly ad homenim by implication.

it is not irrelevant and is essential to the 
argument, thus is not an argumentum ad hominem even if the Latin phrase 
doesn't mention the need for irrelevancy.

Oh, silly me.  Your distractions and ad homenims are somehow on-topic. 
Please tell us how your posting above relates to "INTELLIGENT DESIGN vs.
EVOLUTION."

"Ad homenim" is just a couple of words that you thought sounded "neat" 
and you latched on to them and like to repeat them. Sort of like a 
parrot, I suppose.

There you go again...

Really, you should cease assuming and trying to categorize others.  Want
to try for another foot in your mouth?

-- Regards, Curly
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