We need a term for the opposite of ad hominem arguments

An ad hominem attack occurs when a person attacks the character of a person rather than attacking what that person said.  Here’s an example: “Don’t listen to Tommy.  He’s a big fat slob.” This argument is not valid because the attack has nothing to do with the content of Tommy’s…

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Are you having difficulty figuring out who you are ? Then take an inventory of your friends.

Periodically, I become a bit disoriented in the swirl of life, which gives rise to the question: “Who am I?”  We aren’t static beings, of course.  We are complex adaptive systems, communities of relatively simple cellular life that number in the trillions.  Many of “our” cells (in fact, the great…

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