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Subject: Re: orgonomy - Wed, 14 Feb 1996 14:02:43 -0500
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 14:02:43 -0500
From: Christopher G Caruso <ccaruso@sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: orgonomy
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Shawn P. Wilbur wrote:
>
> How do the ad hominem attacks if their target is simply shifted?
> Chris, are you not now guilty of an attack on my character?
Please don't play so fast and loose with definitions. An ad Hominem
fallacy is made when an argument is rejected on the basis of some
irrelevant fact about the person making the argument.
When you dismiss Carlinsky's article because of what you impute about his
motivations to somehow "seriously disrupt the fragile collectivity" of the
OML, you are making an ad Hominem claim:
> it is a serious but
> sometimes necessary move to question motives, particularly where the
> evidence of a desire for truly open debate seems lacking.
I made no such imputations about your motives or character. Therefore, I
did not engage in ad Hominem.
I apologize if you read my message as a personal attack- it was not. I,
like you, am concerned with the tone and open-ness of the OML. However, my
warning bells go off when folks start to dismiss people they don't agree with
based on speculations about their character or motives.
--
Chris Caruso Check out: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ccaruso/
ccaruso@sas.upenn.edu http://www.igc.org/fair/
Philadelphia, PA USA http://www.mcs.com/~jdav/league.html
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