(December 7, 2013 at 11:23 pm)StrongWaters Wrote:Ad hominem(December 7, 2013 at 11:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I did not commit an ad hominem fallacy. Had I done so, I would have made the claim that your argument is invalid because you are an ignorant wretch. Your argument is invalid because it is wrong.
You are an ignorant wretch irrespective of the value of your argument.
What I did was called 'insult direct', not 'ad hominem'.
Boru
Abusive fallacy.
Quote:AbusiveEh, no.
Abusive ad hominem usually involves attacking the traits of an opponent as a means to invalidate their arguments. Equating someone's character with the soundness of their argument is a logical fallacy. Mere verbal abuse in the absence of an argument, however, is not ad hominem nor any kind of logical fallacy.
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