• BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      of course they’re from wikipedia-- I even link there. it’s no secret, nor are you some great detective for pointing that out, lmao

      and, obviously, I’m not going to engage in an argument that’s fallacious, giving it legitimacy. what’s amusing is that you - or anyone - takes offense to this.

      do better.

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          1 year ago

          “I know you are but what am I” is not an effective form of debate. nor is:

          Ad hominem

          Ad hominem (Latin for ‘to the person’), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a term that refers to several types of arguments, most of which are fallacious. Typically this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself. This avoids genuine debate by creating a diversion to some irrelevant but often highly charged issue. The most common form of this fallacy is “A makes a claim x, B asserts that A holds a property that is unwelcome, and hence B concludes that argument x is wrong”.