Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Brian Barker wrote:

> At 09:58 04/02/2014 +1000, Peter West wrote:
> > It mystifies me that some ossers become tossers on this particular topic, 
> > ...
>
> Whatever value your argument might have had, you destroy it by being abusive 
> and using an ad hominem argument, of course.  It is thus surprising that you 
> should choose to do this.

jeez, these days no one knows what an 'ad hominem' argument is!

an 'ad hominem' attempts to prove a point against (or for) X by basing 
the point on some logically irrelevant aspect of the person claiming 
X.

e.g. "you only say we should bottom-post because you are a tosser."

(whatever a 'tosser' is, is that a kind of shot putter?)

that wasn't the case here as Peter based his point on a different 
argument (albeit one I find thoroughly unconvincing but not because 
I'm a shot putter).

name-calling does not invalidate an argument else, "p implies q, 
therefore not (p and not-q), you tosser!" would be invalid.

just saying....

F.

--
Felmon Davis

Blutarsky's Axiom:
        Nothing is impossible for the man who will not listen to reason.

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