Word: hominem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recalled that Reagan had opposed the 1963 test-ban treaty, and declared: "If Mr. Reagan had had his way, our children would be drinking milk with strontium 90." This line has its dangers: it sometimes sounds slightly whiny, and it veers perilously close to the kind of ad hominem attack on a highly popular President that could backfire. Mondale has also flubbed his remarks; at a rally in Birmingham, he said "Mr. America" instead of "Mr. Reagan." On the other hand, Mondale has begun to make an issue of the heckling, rebuking both the protesters ("We will be heard...
...real problem with Mr. Howe's approach, however, is that he is very willing to "brand the divestiture movement as one that doesn't deserve consideration" because of its "shrill posturing." Although Mr. Howe charges that most of the divestment proponents' arguments are ad hominem, his own arguments aren't exactly free of that bias either. If Mr. Howe were really concerned about the issue, he would find out more about the arguments for and against divestment (both of which have been made quite public). Instead, he attacks the people who are in favor of divestment, letting all the relevant...
...ANNUAL SPRINGTIME orgy of divestiture activity has begun again, along with the name-calling that accompanies it. Once again, President Bok and his colleagues on the Corporation are being subjected to bitter and vicious ad hominem attacks...
...unlike his two main rivals, King does not have to resort to ad hominem assaults when his proposals or his integrity are challenged...
...When I was studying philosophy, "she says, "we did not get that I think it was assumed that we should know these things such as what a circular argument or an ad hominem argument was, but I never felt we went into that with sufficient care...