In the Sept. 24 East Oregonian, Mr. David Arlint wrote a personal attack intended to derail rational discourse, then he asked why the conversation was derailed. Funny! Fallacies are intentionally ...

In case you haven’t noticed, people are arguing with each other all over the place these days. Current political events seem to have led to record-setting argumentation. My Facebook feed used to be ...

It would save teachers a lot of time and classroom quarreling if students were given a basic introduction to logical fallacies. That way, when the students fell to using one of the fallacies ...

Mr. Kowalski says my letter is “replete with untruths, and a gratuitous ad hominem attack” (“Tax policy is flawed,” Our Readers’ Views, Sept. 6). He does not identify anything about my letter that is ...

Rick Hauser’s letter (“Wealthy pay their fair share,” Our Readers’ Views, Sept. 3) is replete with untruths, and a gratuitous ad hominem attack. The fact that “the rich” pay more in absolute dollars ...

Ad hominem. It’s a word (or is it two?) not used every day, but it pops into my mind a lot lately. If it’s not familiar, it’s Latin. Its direct translation is “to the man.” Let’s say you write “I love ...