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Old 04-20-2007, 10:18 PM   #11
TheMercenary
“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
 
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
"Ad hominem" is perhaps the most well known of all the logical fallacies. Literally translated as "against the man", it describes any argument in which the proponent's arguments are dismissed because of who he is or represents, instead of addressing the argument itself.

Wikipedia entry on Ad Hominem

Argue the point, not the man.
Which is what I have asked from the beginning... The teen cannot make the point that a parent has no right to see or monitor what is being transacted under the roof that the parent controls.
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