Sentences with phrase «pointed ad hominem attack»

And on Wednesday, Trump tweeted a pointed ad hominem attack, saying that Mueller «is most conflicted of all,» and accused Mueller of going «crazy» because there's «no collusion.»

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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.

Or perhaps I simply realize that many of the so called rational atheists who post on CNN are dedicated to reason only as long as it supports their positions and when it doesn't immediately switch to ad hominem attacks to try to get people to ignore the legitimate point that was made.

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.

It would appear evident that you are unable to refute my points and thus feel the need to resort to an ad hominem attack against me personally.

While Spitzer argued early on in the debate that «ad hominem attacks at this point are really not appropriate for this campaign,» the former governor pushed Stringer on his record.

Regarding the ad hominem, Walton contends that although such attacks are usually fallacious, they can be legitimate when a character critique is directly or indirectly related to the point being articulated.

Most of the responses, including Hugh's, completely ignore the points I tried to make and go straight for ad hominem attacks.

Rather than attempting to address the points dissenters are raising, these are routinely countered by ad - hominem attacks on their character.»

I call B * ll *** t. All of your points so far have been ad hominem attacks on RC, and apparently you are not willing to come up with an independent though (which reflects that you actually read the back - and - forths of Mann et al), that you are willing to put up for cross-examination.

V 40, lying his tail off: Rather than attempting to address the points dissenters are raising, these are routinely countered by ad - hominem attacks on their character.»

I do not see the point of nor to I care to be nice to folks who derail scientific discussions by resorting to ad hominem attacks.

Ad hominem attacks are always my favorite, as they reveal much about the attacker and nothing about the person being attacked or the point they're making.

Hence, he sniffed, «attempts to allege climate denialism in response to my points are ad hominem attacks not worthy of consideration».

[DC: I fail to see how pointing out the provenance of Wegman's tree - ring passage, and the errors and distortions within it, can constitute an ad hominem attack.

To describe DL's analysis of the inner workings of the IPCC — or my pointing to her research as evidence of bad procedure at the IPCC — as «childish ad hominem attacks» is ludicrous in the extreme and beyond parody.

This is especially amusing: «it is axiomatic that when a person resorts to ad hominem attacks they are out of ideas, can not respond to a point - of - view that has been put forth, and are intellectually bankrupt».

It's funny seeing the criticisms of Monckton here, as they are all unsubstantiated or ad hominem or refer to blog posts that attack a very minor point in a much larger argument.

If people disagree they should argue against Philips» point, an not insult her and themselves with an ad hominem attack.

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