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Re:An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (2013) by peteretep on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:36PM (#13973834)
That is not an example of the ad hominem fallacy
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Re:An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (2013) by woodruffw on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @03:33AM (#13974775)
I pretty much said that - it's an ad hominem, but it's not fallacious.
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Re:An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (2013) by peteretep on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @06:42AM (#13975469)
Ad hominem is short for argumentum ad hominem, which is a type of logical fallacy. Saying "it's an ad hominem but it's not fallacious" suggests you either don't understand this, or you think that the example you've given is an example where the authority of the arguer is indeed part of the argument (which is indeed a non-fallacious ad hominem), which it's clearly not.
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