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What is "labeled" or "labels" here?
(from video 3:10) you know what you are? you're a socialist! once they start the ad hominem attacks, you've won. No, Uncle Bob, I'm just interested in facts, not labeled.
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The word, "labels", in this context, is a reference to the knee jerk use of applying a descriptive term to person in an overly and oft misrepresented manner. In the video, 'Uncle Bob' was portrayed as having lost any meaningful rebuttal and resorted in using the lable, "socialist", in an ad hominem attack. If unaware, an ad hominem is a logical fallacy in debate.
- The word, "labels", in this context, is a reference to the knee jerk use of applying a descriptive term to person in an overly and oft misrepresented manner.
- In the video, 'Uncle Bob' was portrayed as having lost any meaningful rebuttal and resorted in using the lable, "socialist", in an ad hominem attack.
- If unaware, an ad hominem is a logical fallacy in debate.
- It is an an attack on the person, not the topic.
- In this case, "socialist" was meant by 'Uncle Bob' to be derogatory.
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The word, "labels", in this context, is a reference to the knee jerk use of applying a descriptive term to person in an overly and oft misrepresented manner.
In the video, 'Uncle Bob' was portrayed as having lost any meaningful rebuttal and resorted in using the lable, "socialist", in an ad hominem attack. If unaware, an ad hominem is a logical fallacy in debate. It is an an attack
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