Friday, April 19, 2013

Not what you night think …

 Edward Feser: What is an ad hominem fallacy? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)





… not every ad hominem attack -- an attack “against the man” or person -- involves a fallacious ad hominem. “Attacking the man” can be entirely legitimate and sometimes even called for, even in an argumentative context, when it is precisely the man himself who is the problem.

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