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I think it's more likely that if you can't find anything constructive to say about it, that maybe you don't have a valid argument (your original post was an ad
by petersellers 3y ago
I think it's more likely that if you can't find anything constructive to say about it, that maybe you don't have a valid argument (your original post was an ad hominem attack after all).
- zabzonk 3y agonot ad hominem - i know nothing about him as a person. i have read 3 or 4 of his books (have you?) and found them pretty worthless.
- petersellers 3y agoIn your original post, you dismissed the article because you read previous books of his and thought they were bad. That is literally an ad hominem.
- zabzonk 3y agono, it isn't. ad hominem is attacking a person. i was criticising his writings.
- petersellers 3y agoYou are attacking the person's writing capability, implying that the article is not good because they wrote something before that you disagreed with. You're trying to argue semantics here, but it doesn't really matter because either way your argument is fallacious.
- kjs3 3y agoYes, "all a bit pants" really plumbs the depths of intellectual critique.