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TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Yes I know, it’s the way the argument is put with “You have to understand”, as if I wasn’t aware of a very obvious fact.
Put together with the bubble comment, he argues like a camouflaged MAGA, using “you too” arguments.

Cool, now we’re getting somewhere. I agree with you! I’ll ask you for a THIRD time, have you read the article that I shared a link to? Because if you do, you’ll see why what you describe here is not an ad hominem.

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Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I don’t get the relevance of that link, it talks about logical falacies like:

A: “All rodents are mammals, but a weasel isn’t a rodent, so it can’t be a mammal.”

I don’t see how that’s relevant, there is no way that can be seen as an ad hominem. The entire piece seems to be like that. And obviously ad hominem is not a logical fallacy of any kind.

From wikipedia which is way more concise, and actually talks about what an ad hominem is instead of what it is not:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

Ad hominem (Latin for ‘to the person’), short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments that are fallacious. Often currently this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, **or some other attribute of the person making an argument **

In this case me being emotional.

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- TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You evidently don’t know enough about logic and logical fallacies to grasp what I’m saying. Take care.
  
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