Julio Huato: " And history is ad hominem or is not serious"

I don't know what Julio means by "ad himinem," but the phrase is a technical
term of logic and rhetoric and is a kind of logical fallacy. Here is an
example of an ad hominem argument:

Jim Roe is a lying mother-fucker
Jim Roe claims Lansing is the capital of Michigan
Therefore Lansing is not the capital of Michigan.

Julio, do you mean that to be a serious historianone has to ground his/her
whole argument in that kind of logical idiocy?

Carrol


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