[Vision2020] Re: Earlier question

Ted Ryan coffeemonkey100 at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 31 21:14:15 PDT 2004


I do understand the distinction and also understand how you really have only
reinforced my point.

Ted Ryan


> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:40:45 -0700
> From: "Art Deco aka W. Fox" <deco at moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Re: Earlier question
> To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
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> Ted, et al,
>
> Ted complains:
>
> "To those interested in real dialogue personal attacks are not becoming,
and as
> you may know, violate a very basic rule of logical discussion: Ad
Hominem."
>
> Ad Hominem fallacies are a form of fallacy subsumed under the category
Genetic
> Fallacies.  Neither Ad Hominen arguments or the more general Genetic
arguments
> are always fallacious;  whether they are or not depends on the specific
argument
> and the attendant facts.
>
> Ted, to begin to understand this distinction you might start by reading
the
> following primer: Logic, by Wesley Salmon.
>
> Wayne
>
> Art Deco  (Wayne Fox)
> deco at moscow.com
>



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