RE: Kavanaugh Can Join Thomas.
October 5, 2018 at 1:13 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2018 at 1:14 pm by John V.)
(October 5, 2018 at 1:07 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Some letters after someone's name or a degree, may mean that they have demonstrated a certain amount of knowledge. But it doesn't tell you if they are wise or sometimes even if they can properly utilize that knowledge. I've met engineers that have a PHD, and they are dumber than a box of rocks. They don't have any common sense, or experience to apply that knowledge. Appealing to ones occupation is just an appeal to authority, and ad hominem. If all you are given is the education or occupation, then all you have to go on is those assumptions you mentioned.
Yep, and you'd make the same assumptions as me.
Quote:However if the dishwasher makes a better argument for the idea at hand, then it doesn't matter what their job is. As in most of the informal fallacies you are guilty of ignoring the argument, and appealing to something which is largly irrelevant, and doesn't tell you much of anything about the argument.
How many times do I need to point out that there wasn't an argument in the post I was responding to? We were swapping insults. Joods probably gives less of a shit about it than you do.
