17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
Saying "just call the police" strikes me as being one of the most absurd things I've ever heard on this list.
(If I receive a "Logos-gram" warning me I am being unpolite, you know where it'll go.)
The name of the informal logical fallacy Tim May has *not* made is 'argumentum ad hominem' (literally, 'an argument to the man'; attacking one's opponent rather than dealing with the subject under discussion; aka name calling). Having said that, while Tim May has not committed a logical fallacy, neither has he advanced a logical argument. He has merely stated his conclusory opinion of the other person's comment. By itself, it adds little or nothing of substance to the argument. Logos out