(May 24, 2014 at 11:02 am)BlackMason Wrote: It's YOU that doesn't know what an ad hominem is. It's not limited to "attacks". Argumentum ad hominem is when one part knows a personal detail about the other and uses that to refute an argument. For example: You don't shower regularly so I don't believe the conclusions of your doctoral thesis. Or, "You haven't got your BS degree yet so I don't believe you."
Did you intentionally omit the concept of relevance form your definition of ad hominem because it destroys your argument, or are you simply fucking ignorant?