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RE: STEEM: The Disproportionate Power Balance with Downvotes

in OCD • 5 years ago (edited)

...it's not Fallacious if it is true, as the last quote explains.

Your quote "explains" no such thing.

It simply asserts that in SOME cases, presumably if the subject at hand is specifically about a person's history and or personal choices, data relevant to such an inquiry CANNOT be considered off-limits.

HOweVer, I can't imagine a case where a person's history and or personal choices would be a subject of scrutiny wholly divorced from any explicit or implicit attack or endorsement of their abilities and or ideas WHOLESALE.

A "positive" ad hominem is just as fallacious as a "negative" ad hominem.

You shouldn't believe someone just because they're a doctor.

You shouldn't disbelieve someone just because they're a commie.

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      I agree, claims should be examined by themselves

      Well that's encouraging.

      It explains that an ad hominem isn't fallacious if the position the other has implicates their character/ motivations etc.

      The only "problem" being that you can never know "their character" or "motivations" etc, due to your EPISTEMOLOGICAL LIMITS.

      And even the most morally repulsive, malevolent person can still make a perfectly valid logically sound statement.

      Their moral repulsiveness and malevolence do not magically invalidate their logic.

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      I only need to Judge them based on what I know about them,

      I admire your faith in sample-bias.

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      ...above all else a matter of Ability to Judge Correctly, not just to judge Logically.

      Please teach me to "Judge Correctly" without logic.

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