Word: hominem
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...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...
Suffice it to say that this represents only the thinnest, topmost fuel for ad hominem attacks that The Longest War's incredible pomposity provides. The book's argument, or at least what one intuits is supposed to represent the argument, is far less substantial. Its basic premise reads "Menachem Begin is unbalanced," and "deep inside himself [Ariel] Sharon has reserved a war for Israel." Beyond this, Timerman follows the classic Vietnam scenario of an insidious bureaucracy intervening between the people and the demonic leadership, while managing a war no one wants. He supports this argument with one nebulous assertion after...
...dramatically, did "The Two Cultures," the title of a 1959 Cambridge lecture. Snow decried the willful ignorance of humanists about science and the chasm between arts and technology. The speech drew worldwide attention, including a scathing ad hominem attack by Cambridge Don F.R. Leavis. Snow's argument no longer seems controversial because it has been so generally accepted: it is important for humanists and everyone else to know what scientists are doing...
Alexander T. Bok '81, a North House assembly delegate, said last night he thinks the House's delegates will end their boycott "if the CDU takes a proper attitude towards the referendum, which means not blitzing us with posters and ad hominem attacks...