(August 9, 2012 at 7:28 pm)Napoleon Wrote: Not an ad hom if it's true
...you really don't know your fallacies, do you?
An ad hominem doesn't have to be false to be an ad hominem. It might be absolutely true that Johnson is an asshole; but if Johnson gives an argument, and your response is, "But you're an asshole," you're engaging in ad hominem.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
