Jim Choate wrote:
> > > > ca. 1500 in italy is certainly a lot closer to the source than ca. 2000
> > > > in northern america, right?
> > >
> > > Ad hominims...so sad. You are of course welcome to your opinion.
> >
> > this is not ad homini, it's a simple statement of fact. unless, of
> > course, time and place have become meaningless since I last checked.
>
> Yes it is Tom. You didn't address any of the facts or conclusions only
> expressed your view in a manner that has components both explicit and
> implicit toward myself.
maybe you are imagining the implicit components? I didn't say that you
are ignorant, I said that anyone living 500 years and a couple thousand
miles away from something is necessarily farther removed from the facts.
I'm sorry if you consider that an attack on your person, but it really
was not intended as such.
> An ad hominim is when you attack a person (overt or covert, simply
> wrapping it in euphamism or spin doctor bullshit doesn't hide it) and not
> the stages of the thesis. Further, what you did say clearly indicates you
> are not following the points I was making but rather have wondered off
> into the fields of mental mastrubation and emotional retribution.
if you insist in that being your opinion, I'll probably not be able to
do anything about that. it's a bit unfortunate that you don't address
the arguments since your knowledge of dates and persons indicates that
you either do have wide knowledge or are not too lazy to check the facts
in whatever resources you have - both things I do consider valuable.
maybe the next discussion will prove to be more productive.
