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- From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic,sci.classics
- Subject: Re: Ad hominum
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- Date: 11 Nov 92 13:44:55 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.173613.12104@waikato.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Nov11.173613.12104@waikato.ac.nz>, maj@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- |> Gary Merrill in sci.classics :
- |>
- |>
- |> Brian, you're being really dense here. The point is not what kinds
- |> of insight one acquires by being a woman, a slave, or a serf, but
- |> rather what *position* one may gain by being a "feminist philosopher",
- |> a "slave philospher", or a "serf philosopher".
- |>
- |>
- |>
- |> Gary Merrill in sci.logic :
- |>
- |>
- |> Ah yes. The ultimate academic bugaboo: funding. Everything (even your
- |> taxonomy of cognitive disciplines) must be a slave to funding.
- |>
- |>
- |> --
- |> Murray A. Jorgensen [ maj@waikato.ac.nz ] University of Waikato
- |> Department of Mathematics and Statistics Hamilton, New Zealand
- |> __________________________________________________________________
- |> 'Tis the song of the Jubjub! the proof is complete,
- |> if only I've stated it thrice.'
-
- No, not exactly. While these remarks *might* be attacked as being
- certain types of fallacies of relevance, the fallacy in question
- are *not* ad hominem. I refer you to Carney & Scheer, _Logic and
- Argument_ for the details (or any decent book on rhetoric).
-
- Moreover, since these were *not* offered as *arguments*, it is
- somewhat inaccurate to characterize them thus. Think of them as
- armchair (though based on some experience with these matters)
- sociological observations concerning *why* certain things are of
- intense interest to academics at certain times. I not, at least,
- that you do not impugn the *truth* of these remarks.
-
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