Sentences with phrase «making ad hominem arguments»

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and the ad hominem attacks continue... boo hoo... I don't have a valid argument to counter his claims... I'll just call him names to make myself feel better...

If what you're trying to use here is the ad hominem fallacy - attacking an argument by attacking the person making the argument - then the only people you'll convince with this tactic are those who haven't learned to think critically.

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.

That is classic ad hominem, what they or I know is irrelevant to the argument I made.

Calling someone names and making direct ad hominem attacks (and YES... the TROLL started ALL of that FIRST) is not an ideological argument.

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

So these «internal» arguments against free will theism are purely ad hominem, drawing upon ethical views that free will theists are thought to accept but which need not be shared by the process theist making the argument.

And I don't necessarily disagree, I'm just saying that @jc's point would be more arguable, perhaps, as a weak analogy fallacy rather that the ad hominem s / he chose, since the crux of the argument is the comparison, not the person making the argument.

For those making ad hominem attacks, that hardly proves your feeble arguments and it is also clearly against the code of conduct.

Judith Curry wrote: «He voices concerns about the following threats to scientific integrity (see especially the last page): appealing to emotions; making personal (ad hominem) attacks; deliberately mischaracterizing an inconvenient argument; inappropriate generalization; misuse of facts and uncertainties; false appeal to authority; hidden value judgments; selectively leaving out inconvenient measurement results.»

It's time for the «convinced» to start beefing up their scientific arguments; they are not going to win any arguments by making ad hominem attacks on other scientists.

An ad hominem uses an attack against a person to discredit an argument the person makes.

The way some of these people savagely attack her, and make terrible, incompetent arguments from authority and ad hominem when they do so, tells me something is wrong with t

Doing so can not be easy, since internet discussions typically vary wildly in terms of quality and coherence, and ad hominem attacks are quite high in web - based paleoclimate discussions, making it hard to know how much personal acrimony tints the arguments.

Kim, all you have done is provide a tacit admission that not only do you not have an answer to the argument (as indicated by the ad - hominem), you can't even make the effort to find out what the argument actually is.

So, let's see, when we (those defending the AGW theory) note that, of the small minority of scientists on the skeptic side making discredited arguments, many if not most seem to have quite direct connections to right - wing or libertarian organizations like the Cato Institute or the George C. Marshall Fund or with the fossil fuel (especially coal) industry, we are derided as engaging in «ad hominem» attacks and so forth.

Ad hominem (Latin for «to the man» or «to the person» [1]-RRB-, short for argumentum ad hominem, is a logical fallacy in which an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itselAd hominem (Latin for «to the man» or «to the person» [1]-RRB-, short for argumentum ad hominem, is a logical fallacy in which an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itselad hominem, is a logical fallacy in which an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.

The reason why an Ad Hominem (of any kind) is a fallacy is that the character, circumstances, or actions of a person do not (in most cases) have a bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made (or the quality of the argument being made).