Robert A. Kahn

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Against the revisionists, argument ad hominem (Nicholas Fraser, Adrien Le Bihan, Pierre Vidal-Naquet)

At times, in a debate of ideas, an attack on the person of the adversary can be justified if, explicitly or implicitly, this type of attack is preceded or accompanied by an argumentation on the substance. On the other hand, a pure and simple ad hominem argument, without further ado, only betrays an inability to…