Sentences with phrase «avoiding ad hominem»

Most of the «rules for blogging» I have come across — like Alan Jacobs's «Rules for Deportment for Online Discourse» — focus on very basic things like avoiding ad hominem attacks and not arguing in bad faith.

And when he does criticize, Klein also reaches for compliments — teachers union boss Randi Weingarten may have been the bane of his professional life, and in Klein's view she missed the chance to be truly revolutionary, but she is «whip smart» and avoided ad hominem attacks.

Lets keep this on the science from now on, and lets avoid ad hominems.

Roy Hogue has asked me to avoid ad hominem attacks, and I will try to do so.

For the most part the refereed literature avoids the ad hominem arguments that characterize this blog.

The thing is to try to constrain the arguments to data and models, avoid ad hominem.

Please avoid ad hominem attacks and stick to the actual evidence.

I make a point of really trying to avoid ad hominem attacks, but this time I just can't help myself.

Not exact matches

Again you avoided everything I said and proceeded wth ad hominems.

I wish to respond up front to these two objections, since I know all too well the effectiveness of ad hominem attacks used to discredit a voice, avoiding debate and thus dispensing with substantive analysis of the issues.

If you're male, and question the hegemony non-medically trained midwives assert over childbirth, or suggest that the homebirthing movement is a failed experiment you can expect nasty ad - hominem from the post-rational coterie who will do anything to avoid addressing the substance of the contention that natural birth and homebirthing have been empirically shown to be a failure, and should be abandoned.

I know that you called my argument stupid but you never gave a compelling reason why (which isn't ad hominem, by the way since you were targeting a argument and not a person, do read more about informal fallacies to avoid seeming uneducated).

I do enjoy a good argument, though, and try to avoid at least ad hominems (i.e. «Don't Blame Or Use Personal Attacks»).

This is the sine qua non of ad hominem, an attempt to avoid open, rational, democratic accountability and responsibility.

For years, I presume partially in an effort to avoid debate, certain alarmists have taken the ad hominem position that skeptics are anti-science.