Re: [OT] logic (was Re: Zero terminated strings)

Beej Jorgensen <beej@xxxxxxx> writes:

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That doesn't fool anyone, though. Usually it's more barbed than that:

"You can trust Joe."
"No, you can't--he's a police officer."

I don't know if that was intended, but both those statements are in
fact ad hominem arguments.

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"Eric's argument is wrong because he is a total loon."

In that case, it would clearly be ad hominem (and an insult, as well.)

Yes, but if someone was to say (unrelated to current thread):

"Jawaharlal's argument is wrong because he aggregates information from
dubious sources and interprets them to fit his preconceived notions on
the issue."

Would that be concidered an ad hominem argument?

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