[OT rude or not, a different opinion] -Re: Beta 8.10 released

tom bell cbell44 at cfl.rr.com
Tue Oct 14 19:45:27 UTC 2008


> Fake politeness is useless, in this we agree. But if you disagree with 
> someone else's ideas, you attack the ideas, not the person. That's not 
> fake politeness, that's respect. (it's not meant to be a scolding, I'm 
> not referring to what has been said; the technique of attacking a person 
> whose ideas we don't share is old and well known, the exact term escapes 
> me - is it "ad personam"?)
ad hominem

Tom Bell
-- 
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when
we created them.”
-- Albert Einstein, Physicist (1879-1955)




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