Thy Plague Doctor

Strega wrote:@Unseen. None of the examples you provided point to the difference between “fallacy” and “attack” when appended to “ad hominem”

What Strega said. I personally think it would be a great idea to have two different terms (with the exact labels you gave).….but at least per all of the scouring I’ve done these terms are not commonly used…[Read more]

Anyway, getting the same email notification more than once happened a lot on TA. Weird that it happens here as well.

If you check the box at the bottom of your post saying ‘notify me of follow up replies by email’ you get an email every time someone posts to that thread. If someone mentions you as @Unseen then you get an email to tell you…[Read more]

@Unseen. None of the examples you provided point to the difference between “fallacy” and “attack” when appended to “ad hominem”

@Unseen. I think the point is that there is no objective definition of the difference between “attack” and “fallacy” when they are appended to the term “ad hominem”.

@Davis seems to appreciate that you have a personal definition difference, but alleges that your definitions are just that. Personal.

What would be interesting is if there were…[Read more]

Impressive answers @all of you. ??

Unseen wrote:

Davis wrote:
You don’t need to reference anything you don’t want to…but the red flags are utterly flapping violently in the wind. Perhaps I am ignorant per these two terms. I don’t want to remain ignorant and…I would be delighted to learn a new, standardised and obvious set of terms used in academia or intellectual discourse…

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Or worse, someone pushing a big red button to make all atheists born-again Christians. Keep your damn buttons!

I think the effect of pressing your button, @Davis, would be instant madness and mayhem, maybe decades later settling in to some kind of improvement, but at what cost? You can’t throw away the crutches before you heal the patient.…[Read more]

I understand hesitating both ways Simon and Belle. Let’s ask the inverse. Would you appreciate anyone removing any beliefs (rational or not), personal tastes, memories or now defunct/discredited ideas/knowledge from your mind? Would the fact that it wasn’t personally tailored for you but done en masse by a dictator with his finger on a button make…[Read more]

You don’t need to reference anything you don’t want to…but the red flags are utterly flapping violently in the wind. Perhaps I am ignorant per these two terms. I don’t want to remain ignorant and…I would be delighted to learn a new, standardised and obvious set of terms used in academia or intellectual discourse. If it is so obvious I doubt it…[Read more]

@Unseen That is new to me unseen. As I was taught…an ad hominem fallacy is an attack. Can you direct me to a book or website which explains the difference between the fallacy and attack?