Subject: Re: contra graham
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:21:03 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3232830041176351@naggum.net>

* Gordon Joly
| I did not attack the person.

  Stop lying, too.  This is what you said:

    I would submit that that terms such a "nonsense" and phrases like
    "ignorant fucks who plaster their prejudice..." and "crappy reasoning"
    are not the hallmarks of a measured debate. These types of remarks
    usually demonstrate sloppy thought and hasty delivery.

  This is a classic ad hominem argument.  If you are so concerned about
  "measured debate" as you seem to be, when you are not conducting it
  yourself, you need to find a reasonably good book on argumentation and
  look up what ad hominem means if you do not recognize your own as such.
-- 
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  In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.

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