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Quite close but generally ad hominem would be: "You are an awful person and therefore your argument is wrong". The second piece is missing here.
by esja 6y ago
Quite close but generally ad hominem would be: "You are an awful person and therefore your argument is wrong". The second piece is missing here.
- baxtr 6y agoAh, so the therefore part is missing then. Thanks for the clarification!
- esja 6y agoYou're welcome! It's possible you were right, if we can interpret the "attack" as being purely intended to undermine the original argument. I just didn't personally interpret it that way... it looked more like a side-observation to me, something like "name-calling" under Paul Graham's categorisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)#Graham's_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(programmer)#Graha...