On Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 4:50:55 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 4:27:30 AM UTC-6, Bruce wrote: >> >> >> People can hold several different theories about different areas of >> science at the same time. Bringing up some bad review of a book by Maudlin >> on space-time theory does not seem to be relevant to the issue at hand, >> which concerned quantum mechanics. Your approach is sometimes known as >> 'poisoning the well', or an ad hominem attack -- bring up some irrelevant >> criticism of a person in order to discredit their views on something quite >> different. >> >> You are coming close to trolling behaviour, Phil. >> >> Bruce >> > > > > > > But isn't someone who posts and doesn't say who they are a troll? > > You have no link to a profile, website, CV, or anything else that I have > ever seen. > > It's like all the anonymous posters in social media - no one knows who > they are. > > @philipthrift > > > >
Also nowhere have I "ad hominem" Maudlin. I agree with him: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/HEFlTQYIBoQ/3hDx__qMAgAJ @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/fac7a295-c213-401f-b5dd-95cf7d7b1dda%40googlegroups.com.
