I just can’t help connect different word ocassionally… So, here it goes.
ad hom·i·nem
(hŏm’ə-něm’, -nəm) Pronunciation Key
adj. Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason: Debaters should avoid ad hominem arguments that question their opponents’ motives.
And then…
hom·i·ly
(hŏm’ə-lē) Pronunciation Key
- A sermon, especially one intended to edify a congregation on a practical matter and not intended to be a theological discourse.
- A tedious moralizing lecture or admonition.
- An inspirational saying or platitude.
So, as I listen to political debate of the day, I hear these constant moralizing lectures that are attacks on a person rather than on the subject at hand. And then there are the non-debates, where people just spout slogans that don’t have any meaning…
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Teri Lussier wrote,
When I watch the debates, or more likely when I hear commercials, I will think of ad homily and you!
Link | August 3rd, 2008 at 5:59 am