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- From: cxm7@po.CWRU.Edu (Colin Mclarty)
- Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech,sci.math
- Subject: Re: Those funny secret old words
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 18:03:13 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, danco@titan.ucc.umass.edu (DANIEL F COHEN) says:
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- >
- > miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >>PL436000@brownvm.brown.edu (Jamie) writes:
- >>>>From: pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman)
- >>>
- >>>> SG Zeleny has perfected the argumentum ad loudmouth.
- >>> Jamie I wonder if Grossman actually knows what "ad" means, or if he
- >>> only *mistakenly* called himself a loudmouth?
- >>> Miner Apparently you don't know what it means either, unless you're
- >> kidding...<:-)
- >
- >
- >Um...alright, help out a poor kid with only a couple of years of university
- >Latin: I was always under the impression "ad" meant the same as "to," "up
- >to," or "near to." Hence, "argumentum ad loudmouth" would seem to be
- >a rather silly approximation of "arguing to the loudmouth," which, given that
- >Zeleny's aruments were directed at Grossman, would suggest that Grossman, was,
- >indeed, the loudmouth in question.
- >
- The Latin "ad" like the French "a (accent grave)" can mean any of
- those, or can mean "with".
-