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Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)

From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2 Jun 2006 10:40:33 -0700
Message-ID: <1149270033.276193.36930@f6g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 





Keith H Duggar wrote:

>




> What BB wrote

> may be called an /insult/ but it is not ad hominem since it

> is not even an argument. Ad hominem refers to a fallacious

> form of /argumentation/. BB's argumentation followed that

> insult. The insult was not his argument. Do you understand?

> You are not alone in this increasingly common misconception

> that insult = ad hominem.




Exactly.



Some examples:



"What you wrote is wrong, therefore you suck." Not ad-hominem.



"You suck, therefore what you wrote is wrong." Ad-hominem.



"You suck." Not ad-hominem.




That is all.




Marshall
Received on Fri Jun 02 2006 - 12:40:33 CDT












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