(August 10, 2019 at 8:27 pm)Grandizer Wrote: I'm not following you Belaqua. How is observing some arguments made by a group of Xs and judging that these arguments are really bad an ad hominem?
Sorry if I wasn't clear.
It is NOT an ad hominem to analyze arguments and say they are bad.
It is an ad hominem if you address the person rather than his argument. "This man is a white supremacist, and he said it's Sunday, so it must not be Sunday." or "This person has bad motivations, and he said Trump is stupid, so Trump must be smart."
Quote:as far as I'm concerned (and this is suggested in some of the philosophical articles as well) it's a field of its own separate from theology (which is usually interchangeable with the revelatory theology, or whatever it's called).
Well, OK. I'm not invested in deciding the boundaries about what is real theology and what isn't.
I would like to say, though, that my day is made better by the fact that you comfortable and casually use "its" and "it's" correctly in a sentence. Bless you.
