-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 20 June 2003 16:54, Jonathan Revusky wrote: > I'm not completely sure you understand what "ad hominem" means. The > ad-hominem fallacy is where you attack a person's character because you > cannot legitimately deal with the argument that person is making. > > That is precisely what Henning was doing in his last respose to me. The > ad-hominem fallacy was very much inevidence. These "arguments" like I'm > such a disagreeable person, so nobody will be interested in FM. Of > course, that's an ad-hominem argument. Unashamedly ad-hominem!
whatever history henning and you might share, on this list, the message http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg12447.html is the first in the thread that contains dismissive comments about personality and skills of another person. and you are the author of that mail. you started it, he shot back. if this is not correct, and the message indicated above was not the first agressive email on this list, i apologize for accusing you of starting this. and just for the records: i think i have a tiny little bit of understanding of valid and invalid forms of arguments. peter - -- |- | peter riegersperger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |- | subnet | platform for media art and experimental technologies |- | http://www.subnet.at/ |- | muehlbacherhofweg 5 // 5020 salzburg // austria |- | fon/fax +43/662/842 897 |- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+8zQbIMP39JYOy9IRArwCAJ9aAlLg3N+BE5W7kXk+YTN13eIDewCg1U0G f6e8IE36qoRU5T2p3PF96ts= =mwP5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
