Lisi Reisz schreef op 31-12-2016 10:37:
On Saturday 31 December 2016 08:48:09 Xen wrote:Oh and yes, mentioning someone else's behaviour to another person is notan ad hominem attack Catherine.https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ad+homonem&oq=ad+homonem&aqs=chrome..69i57.3014j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Being able to quote google searches does not make you a better person.
How can something which attacks a named person by name NOT be ad hominem??
Because when you're upset about a person or his or her behaviour, you have to name that person and that is not an argument as to something philosophically correct or argumentatively wrong, that is about being angry with someone.
The argument is not "You argument is flawed because you are a woman" (for instance) which would be an ad hominem: it is using irrelevant personal detail to not accept the validity of an otherwise valid argument. That is an ad hominem.