It's when you shoot the messenger instead of the message, literally "to the man." You will notice a lot of this in political discourse when someone on one side (the "hearer") disagrees with something one on another side said (the "sayer"), and starts trashing the sayer as a person, rather than presenting any sort of logical or rational argument against what was said. This usually happens when either 1) what was said was correct and disagreed with strongly-held views and opinions of the hearer, or 2) the hearer is stupid and can't argue rationally or logically, or 3) all of the above.
I won't go into my opinions and anecdotal observations on who is more "ad hominem" in their responses to things said. --R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> ...Moronic, stupid, unfunny, ad hominen attack.... >> >> > The only other person I've ever seen use the term ad hominem is VanCleef. > > I still don't know what it means, > > RLE > > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
