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I don’t think that’s what ad hominem means, you don’t have to trust my words on that, just open a Latin dictionary and look for the entry “homo, hominis”. And
by mastazi 5y ago
I don’t think that’s what ad hominem means, you don’t have to trust my words on that, just open a Latin dictionary and look for the entry “homo, hominis”.
And by the way, yes I am attacking the entity not the argument, you are right about that.
- chalst 5y agoAd hominem is an idiom: you cannot infer the meaning of an idiom from the composition of its words. A counterargument is ad hominem if it rests on what it says about the arguer, not the content of the argument. It's not always a fallacy, but it is a danger sign for bad argument.