Sentences with phrase «ad hominem instead»

Ad hominem instead of those troublesome facts.

No wonder you must resort to ad hominems instead of debating the evidence.

Not exact matches

Those that do are just guilty of an ad hominem fallacy; attacking a person's grammar / spelling instead of the actual point of the comment.

«You christians can always come up with a way to abandon your own argument (once it's been destroyed) and instead ad hominem or point to insults or the color of the person's hair, or the way they dress, or who they s c r e w..

Pastors and congregations whose world views differ significantly may instead express their discomfort with each other in ad hominem conflicts.9

My point was that you were making logical fallacy by attacking your opponent instead of attacking their argument, which is called an Ad Hominem fallacy.

I assume that you are in fact adults, but instead of intelligent replies disputing the «commandments» made by Colin, you have only silly ad hominem remarks reminiscent of arguments on an elementary school playground.

And I do appreciate your inability to address the subject at hand, instead choosing to go for a shallow, puerile ad hominem — always the sign of failure in a debate.

Wow, a lot of ad hominems being slung instead of actual conversation.

ad hominem: short for argumentum ad hominem, is an argument made personally against an opponent instead of against their argument.

One person says something that another doesn't agree with, so instead of having a mature conversation about it, they begin with ad hominem attacks.

sassypants — neither is your inability to have a real discussion, instead of engaging in silly and off - topic ad hominems!

Can we let @Moncada hang him / herself on the issues, instead of having to be diverted onto defending against ad hominems?

Instead, it prefers to disparage something or someone by association, by making ad hominem attacks on (real or imagined) supporters of whatever it scorns.

With rare exceptions, when I go looking, I instead find mostly snark, ad hominem attacks, and condescension.

@proof2006: disqus I was really hoping that you were going to clarify something, instead of just going for ad hominem attacks about how I'm stupid for wanting a lot of storage on my phone.

There are exceptions; notably a lot of recent reviews of a best - selling memoir have attacked the author instead of the book, but when a book has lots of reviews it's easier just to skip over the obvious ad hominem attacks of small - minded people, especially those who like to write in all caps.

Instead of using ad hominem about them not being the real fans.

How about evaluating what's true on the basis of the evidence instead of endlessly blathering about who benefits, and other worthless ad hominem arguments?

But instead, you chose to make a thinly veiled, and in my opinion rather snide, ad hominem against Gavin himself, when you said, «The Mistaken Assumptions are your's and your's alone.»

Instead of complaining about nonexistent ad hominem fallacies and name - calling, SA could answer the question by stating the basis for his claim — as I requested.

I suspect that that is progress, and so I hope that instead of writing RC blog comments bashing George Will, sometimes in a bloggish ad hominem way, for all his faults, people will instead read the Will column carefully and then send reasoned, brief, compelling rebuttals to [email protected].

Argumentum ad hominem is the logical fallacy of attempting to undermine a speaker's argument by attacking the speaker instead of addressing the argument.

«If you do so during the argument instead of addressing the arguments of your opponent then yes, this is the ad hominem fallacy in all its glory.

It is a shame that those who disagree with me resolutely decline all public debate and stoop instead to underhanded and unscientific ad hominem tactics.

Instead you stated a number of slurs and insults to demean him and therefore hopefully make people doubt his statements concerning JOS.. That is what ad hominem is, you attack the person to try and show he is wrong rather than present evidence of his wrong doing.

I think the title questioning Gavin's honesty, while perhaps appropriate after a week had passed, instead comes off as an ad hominem and reflects poorly on this blog.

For instance, the very first paragraph does not discuss any scientific issue but instead comprises a weary and oft - rebutted ad hominem attack on the NIPCC's scientific authors (``... purport to be independent....»)

Tim Hetherington You commit the primary logical ad hominem falacy — attacking the person instead of the argument.

And, also, I note, and this seems somewhat typical, you do not address one substantive point I attempt to raise — most of my comment was addressed as questions — why not answer them, instead of attempting ad hominem dismissals?

It is not an ad hominem to say that the peer reviewed literature is the most likely source of the most valid science and that we should rely on it instead of blogs for our science knowledge...

Instead of making baseless ad hominem attacks [edit], please at least try tackle their work.

So instead they have resorted to the usual ad hominem.

If you're interested in seeing what playing the player instead of the ball looks like, check out the alarmist site Only In It For the Gold, where Michael Tobis unleashes endless vicious ad hominem against any skeptics who raise their voice (his most recent was a long diatribe against Freeman Dyson, whom he apparently considers a geriatric buffoon), and opens threads on what names one should call «denialists», regularly bans commenters who argue a point too vociferously, or anyone claiming scientific credentials but arguing against «the consensus».