From 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 on

From 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...