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Re:Logical Fallacies Are Usually Irrelevant or Cited Incorre... by tptacek on Thursday June 06, 2013 @06:48PM (#5835712)
This comment is a joke, right? You're trying to provide an example of what an irrelevant invocation of "ad hominem" actually looks like, right?
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Re:Logical Fallacies Are Usually Irrelevant or Cited Incorre... by hacker789 on Thursday June 06, 2013 @09:35PM (#5836604)
Nope. I certainly used ad hominem, but it wasn't central to my argument. To ignore the rest of my post would be an example of the following:

> they want avoid responding to one or more points they know the other person is trying to make, so they lazily hide behind extraneous non-arguments to avoid confronting any substance.

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