12-22-2013, 01:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-22-2013, 01:23 PM by Adonai One.)
Quote:An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Ad hominem reasoning is normally categorized as an informal fallacy, more precisely as a genetic fallacy, a subcategory of fallacies of irrelevance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Both of you are free to address the actual proposition or continue a personal derision of my character that is irrelevant to the actual value of the thought at hand.