Furthermore...
Nice, Christina. And then there are these problems. First, none of the arguments he points out is reductio ad absurdum (one must never forget the ad). Second, if one was, what the heck would be so wrong with that?
Third, who’s Leo Casey?
Update: Rethinking this argument, I believe our opponent classified it nearly correctly, actually—it is reductio ad absurdum, and a strong one at that. Now, when I ask, above, “who’s Leo Casey”... well, that’s definitely ad hominem.
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July 4th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Latin phrases relevant to Liam Julians posts are: ad nauseam and caveat lector.
And ad hominem - wasn’t there a bit of that in the NRO Douglass High article? People identified for a gratuitous bit of ad hominem.