From: dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ispell.el and pipes
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 07:08:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tugbugqu.fsf@dick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfvvm8hp.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:33:54 +0100")
It is a common mistake to dismiss *ad hominem*. In all the top-10 lists for
logical fallacies, *ad hominem* often appears first when it shouldn't be on
the list at all.
A Bayesian argument can easily be made to decrease the posterior likelihood of
a proposal's correctness by pointing out the foibles and motives of the person
making it. People have accused me of bloviative grandstanding, and I must
concede my narcissism does cast doubt on my code proposals.
While it's not nice, it's not exactly wrong.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-17 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-16 14:42 ispell.el and pipes André A. Gomes
2021-11-16 15:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-16 16:25 ` André A. Gomes
2021-11-16 19:40 ` André A. Gomes
2021-11-16 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-16 20:40 ` André A. Gomes
2021-11-17 9:33 ` Robert Pluim
2021-11-17 10:57 ` tomas
2021-11-17 11:01 ` André A. Gomes
2021-11-17 11:08 ` Robert Pluim
2021-11-17 11:16 ` André A. Gomes
2021-11-17 11:27 ` tomas
2021-11-17 12:08 ` dick [this message]
2021-11-17 12:48 ` tomas
2021-11-17 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-17 13:23 ` André A. Gomes
2021-11-17 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-17 20:19 ` André A. Gomes
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