Presence wrote:
Skyline wrote:
There is something called the ad-hominem fallacy. It does not follow to deny
a person's ability based on that person's personality. Logic.
Ad-hominem fallacies consist of instances where an argument is attacked based
on the source of the argument. To the best of my knowledge of logic, saying
that the quality of someone's future ideas may be similar to the quality of
their past ideas is not inherently fallacious.
In the past, X's ideas have been bad. Past performance often indicates future
performance. It follows that X's future ideas may tend to be bad.
The problem is, you cannot compare this phantom "past performance" of kimvais
to his future performance in coding. Second, kimvais being a "bad" person,
does not still justfiy that person being a "bad" coder. That is the reference
to ad-hominem, even though this fallacy is used to describe arguments. Third,
is kimvais the code slave autonomous? Does not his ideas go through a
hierarchy, where it can be formed and fashioned into an approvable form? Your
little induction of predicting x's future is weak! For example, I as a child
performed horribly, does that mean under your argument that I as an adult will
perform badly? People grow, wisdom and experience is gained, we are
disciplined, and it follows for kimvais too. Your little induction gives no
chance for that.