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Subject: ad hominem arguments
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Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 13:52:49 EST
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Phil Marks' reply to Tetsuo Tomiyama begins:  ``Very interesting...that we
should get such an opinion from a Japanese'' [the dots are his].  I can
think of nothing more offensive in a discussion than using a person's race
or national origin to ridicule his position.  It is the worst kind of ad
hominem argumentation.

Chuck Cross