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Ad hominem doesn't quite mean what you suggest. The two postings are directly related and not an attack based on his wearing of red shirts on thursdays. From
by hammerandtongs 11y ago
Ad hominem doesn't quite mean what you suggest.
The two postings are directly related and not an attack based on his wearing of red shirts on thursdays.
From the wikipedia """Ad hominem reasoning is not always fallacious, for example, when it relates to the credibility of statements of fact or when used in certain kinds of moral and practical reasoning.[3]"""
- narrowrail 11y agoI think part of the point is that pg didn't "post" these to HN himself at all. Someone else submitted a blog post from pg from 2004, and then someone else submitted this recent blog post. In other words, the author of the posts didn't submit them for discussion on HN at all, counter to the insinuation you appear to have made.