On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 13:08 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 15/01/10 17:31, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:47 -0500, john palmieri wrote: > >> You always seem to devolve into ad-hominem, personal attacks. > > > > When a person falsely accuses Lefty of putting bias in his surveys THEN > > you apparently don't need to respond with the ad-hominem bomb??!! > > Huh? If I say "Lefty, you're an idiot", that's ad-hominem, but if I say > "Lefty, > your survey is biased" it's not.
technically, no; if you were to say "Lefty's survey is biased because he's an idiot" then *that* would be ad hominem attack; but saying "Lefty's survey is biased because of <point of bias>" is *not* an ad hominem attack. and, though I feel moderately stupid[0] to even have to point this out: in no case an ad hominem attack on a person allows a third one to reply with an ad hominem attack. ciao, Emmanuele. [0] obviously, I would feel entirely stupid doing so in a normal conses of people, but the medium does require some special hand-holding. The medium and some of the subscribers. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
