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Originally Posted by Drake
Alb,
It is relevant for every follower of a Christ, just not relevant as part of an argument the way you were using it.
The delusion in this case would be accepting the Fallacy in Argumentum (aka the False Analogy) as being valid.
Your Ad Hominem argument requires no further explanation.
Drake
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I spoke what I have to. It's up to you to hear or not.
Pardon my ignorance. I have to look up Ad Hominem from wikipedia. I don't think that's what I intended. But anyway, interesting definition, especially the last part...
Ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an argumentative strategy whereby an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.[2]
However, its original meaning was an argument "calculated to appeal to the person addressed more than to impartial reason".[3]
Fallacious ad hominem reasoning is categorized as an informal fallacy,[4][5][6] more precisely as a genetic fallacy, a subcategory of fallacies of irrelevance.
However, in some cases, ad hominem attacks can be non-fallacious; i.e., if the attack on the character of the person is directly tackling the argument itself. For example, if the truth of the argument relies on the truthfulness of the person making the argument—rather than known facts—then pointing out that the person has previously lied is not a fallacious argument.