Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:53:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@lpt.ens.fr>, Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <1001850800.3bb707b075fb4@webmail.neomedia.it> In-Reply-To: <3BB6A622.58C86193@mindspring.com> References: <1001447850.3bb0e1aa11dfc@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010925222900.A71817@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB216E8.89F3419@mindspring.com> <20010926202630.C10954@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB427FD.61AE3E6A@mindspring.com> <20010928144755.C7471@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB6174E.BCDCCAA6@mindspring.com> <20010930021157.A315@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB6A622.58C86193@mindspring.com>
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Scrive Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>:
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> Can we stop with the ad hominim attacks already? They do not
^^^^^^^^^^
> make your arguments more persuasive.
BTW, I have really been enjoying the conversation.
I have to make a incidental remark, though.
In Italian, a language directly coming from Latin (more so than others), "ad
hominem" has a limited meaning: "[argument/statement] directed towards
confuting somebody else's argument(s)/statement(s) by showing that the
(latter) argument(s) is/are inconsistent with its/their premises, regardless
of the truth or validity of the argument(s) per se". Compare with arguments
"ad veritatem" (truth).
By the way, the English "ad hominem" may mean the Italian "ad personam". That
is, in different languages, Latin expressions are used differently. :-)
-- Salvo
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