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Fallacy: Ad Hominem - 0 views

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definitions fallacies ad hominem fallacy

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  • Translated from Latin to English, "Ad Hominem" means "against the man" or "against the person." An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Typically, this fallacy involves two steps. First, an attack against the character of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made (or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or argument the person in question is making (or presenting).
  • Paul Merrell on 20 May 09
     
    The ad hominem fallacy is a tactic frequently employed by IBM and its followers, most notably by Rob Weir, against those who disagree with IBM's positions and goals. Those who advocate for repairing the badly broken ODF standard or prepare bug reports on that standard are among the most frequently targeted victims of IBM's ad hominem fallacy attacks.
  • Paul Merrell on 20 May 09
     
    As will be seen in other bookmarks, many IBM staffers' arguments relevant to office document format specifications have been based on variations of the ad hominem fallacy, more commonly known as the "personal attack." .
Paul Merrell

Fallacy: Circumstantial Ad Hominem - 0 views

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fallacies ad hominem circumstantial definitions

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  • A Circumstantial ad Hominem is a fallacy in which one attempts to attack a claim by asserting that the person making the claim is making it simply out of self interest. In some cases, this fallacy involves substituting an attack on a person's circumstances (such as the person's religion, political affiliation, ethnic background, etc.).
  • Paul Merrell on 20 May 09
     
    As will be seen in other bookmarks, one of IBM staffers' frequently employed tactics is the circumstantial ad hominem fallacy. Often, the IBM fallacious argument takes the form of suggestions or innuendos that a speaker is biased by their employer's identity or innuendos suggesting that someone is acting in an IBM competitor's interests.
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Fallacy: Appeal to Belief - 0 views

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definitions fallacies appeal to belief fallacy

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  • Appeal to Belief is a fallacy that has this general pattern: Most people believe that a claim, X, is true. Therefore X is true. This line of "reasoning" is fallacious because the fact that many people believe a claim does not, in general, serve as evidence that the claim is true.
  • Paul Merrell on 20 May 09
     
    The appeal to belief fallacy is one of IBM's most frequently deployed weapons in regard to office document format standards, perhaps most egregiously when the beliefs were manufactured from whole cloth by IBM's propaganda campaigns. For example, IBM trades heavily on the ODF Inteoperability Myth, a false belief created by an IBM disinformation campaign.
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IBM's Rob Weir on the ad hominem fallacy - 0 views

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rob weir fallacies ODF conformance Microsoft

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  • Ah, and there is the source of your confusion. Excel 2007 SP2 does not write out document that conform to the ODF 1.1 standard.
  • I lay out the facts, the logic and then draw conclusions. I put my reputation on the line in every post. You could dispute the facts I present. You could argue against my logic if you wish. But you have done neither. You merely resort to ad hominen attacks. I'll take that as an expression of your frustration at not finding a hole in my argument.
  • Paul Merrell on 20 May 09
     
    Here, we learn that Rob Weir understands that ad hominem attacks are usually a fallacy, a way of changing the subject rather than addressing the merits of what was said. We may therefore deduce that when Rob Weir employs the ad hominem attack himself, he does so knowing that he is arguing a fallacy.
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rob weir double standards ad hominem fallacy

shared by Paul Merrell on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • @jackschofield Sorry you missed the postscript with the OOXML data. ODF still smaller by 18%. Calling names is boorish and unprofessional. 8:32 AM Oct 4th via TweetDeck in reply to jackschofield rcweir Rob Weir
  • Paul Merrell on 06 Oct 10
     
    Now we learn that IBM's Rob Weir can't stand the heat of his own most frequently deployed weapon in debate with those who want less interop talk from IBM and more interop walk. See other quotes and links in this group."Calling names is boorish and unprofessional," he pronounces. A great quote to replay the next time Rob wilds the ad hominem fallacy as his weapon.  
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How Microsoft Ratted Itself Out Of Office | BNET Technology Blog | BNET - 0 views

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double standards rob weir OOXML ODF ad hominem fallacy

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  • Also, you have the problem that OOXML does not define details like scripts and macros, the very essence of integrating documents with business processes. So although you may now know how Office stores bold and italics, but these are not exactly the crown jewels of Office compatibility.
  • Paul Merrell on 14 Jul 09
     
    Here, IBM's Rob Weir takes OOXML to task for not specifying scripts and macros. But nary a mention of the fact that OpenDocument suffers from the same weakness. Yet another IBM double standard. He also tacks on an ad hominem attack against Gary Edwards, in lieu of addressing the merits of what Edwards said.
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Schematron-Report patented? - O'Reilly Broadcast - 3 views

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ad ad hominem attacks ad hominem fallacy

shared by Paul Merrell on 05 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Were you in that public benefactor frame of mind when Microsoft offered you money to edit Wikipedia pages for their standards, or when they were paying you to promote their disgraced OOXML standard?
  • Paul Merrell on 05 Feb 10
     
    IBM's Rob Weir does it again. What's to be done when your company is caught patenting methods implemented in an open standard for years? Change the subject in an attempt to kill the messenger who bears the news. Score another vitriolic ad hominem attack for Rob Weir. 
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