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by craftkiller 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
- coldtea 14y agoI also don't believe in "one size fits all" counter-arguments. Sometimes an ad-hominen is the proper thing to say. And in particular cases any of the so-called "logical fallacies" can be very much true and useful. For example, we use the "argument by authority" every-time we trust our doctor instead of our friend's intuition, and I'm perfectly fine with that. An "argument by authority" might not be a perfect tool in 100% of the cases, but it's a perfectly good guideline when we don't have time to go through the details of the matter ourselves. The old-wives-tales on "logical fallacies" point at their less than 100% accuracy and come to the wrong conclusion that they are bad and thus useless.