Re: Thanks, and a Brief Survey

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu ubuntu com>]

On 19/01/10 02:49, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 13:08 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > On 15/01/10 17:31, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:47 -0500, john palmieri wrote:
> > > > You always seem to devolve into ad-hominem, personal attacks.
> > >
> > > When a person falsely accuses Lefty of putting bias in his surveys THEN
> > > you apparently don't need to respond with the ad-hominem bomb??!!
> >
> > Huh? If I say "Lefty, you're an idiot", that's ad-hominem, but if I say "Lefty,
> > your survey is biased" it's not.
>
> technically, no; if you were to say "Lefty's survey is biased because
> he's an idiot" then *that* would be ad hominem attack; but saying
> "Lefty's survey is biased because of<point of bias>" is *not* an ad
> hominem attack.

I stand corrected. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Also, the examples were just that, examples. I should have not put Lefty inside 
them as that was not necessary. Apologies if it looked like I was attacking Lefty.

Emilio