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Your line of thinking is a typical ad hominem; you should evaluate an argumentation based on its merits, not what the meatball behind the online handle happens
by axiosgunnar 5y ago
Your line of thinking is a typical ad hominem; you should evaluate an argumentation based on its merits, not what the meatball behind the online handle happens to do in his free time.
- MiroF 5y agoFrom a Bayesian perspective, the provenance of the information you are basing a decision on is of obvious relevance to how you shape your beliefs. Ad hom is only fallacious if the information really is irrelevant to the argument [0][1] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/e01b9z/is_ad_hominem_necessarily_a_fallacy/ https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/e01b9z/is_ad...