----- Original Message -----
Sent: March 20, 2006 08:30
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Fw: and
now
Strange friend you have Lance; she has her own
definitions for everything. If something false that
sounds logical is the criteria then we should begin
to censure everyone who speaks the truth, it sure
would be a lot less work for the moderator.
1984 has arrived.
sectarianism. Is nobody safe from your ignorance
and bigotry?
DM has never really understood what an
ad hominem is. It has nothing to do with rudeness.
All ad homs, as a form of
logical fallacy, are a variant of "Your disagreeing with me is
just an intellectual
failure on your part. Hence I am
right."
The rude parts are just incidental extensions of
the first sentence, of the form
"...
resulting from your being Catholic, Calvinist,
prejudiced, poorly-read, Canadian, Communist, stupid, deceived
by the devil, blind, itchy-eared, liberal, [fill in
the blank]."
D