Re[2]: [tied] Re: Scientist's etymology vs. scientific etymology

At 3:46:43 PM on Sunday, June 8, 2008, Patrick Ryan wrote:

> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>

>> At 6:28:09 AM on Sunday, June 8, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
>>> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> [...]

>>>> I think that his idée fixe has taken him at least to the
>>>> edge of crackpot territory.

>>> And that is an ad hominem too.

>> <shrug> Obviously you don't know what the term means.

> No, Brian, it is obvious that you do not.

If you intend to use the term, I suggest that you repair the
gap in your knowledge. A negative judgement of someone's
work or ideas, even a strongly negative one, is not an ad
hominem.

> Perhaps because you do not know what ad hominem's are, you
> use them so frequently. You include an insult with almost
> everything you write.

> How sad not to even be aware of how offensive you are!

Oh, dear. The irony, the irony.

Brian