Brief Thursday Bullets: Disagreement does not equal hatred

• Image 1: From Wikipedia - Burnage, Manchester. After Crumpsall and Gorton, this was my last area of residence while living in Manchester. After that, when not at home here in British Columbia, I worked out of Lampeter, Wales.

• My stay in Burnage was less eventful than my stays in Crumpsall and Gorton.

• However, I was house-sitting for a year for African missionaries and the house did flood once (not my fault, thankfully).

• Image 2: An excellent comment, but with a brief online search, I did not see definitive proof of the actual source of that comment.

• A reason that such a comment is made within western society, is a lack of critical thinking skills by many that accuse others of hate within the context of intellectual disagreement.

• ad hominem in archives

• Ad hominem is an example of an informal fallacy, often used in these types of intellectual interactions.

• PIRIE, MADSEN (2006)(2015) How To Win Every Argument, Bloomsbury, London. 

• 'If you cannot attack the argument, attack the arguer.' Pirie (2006)(2015: 122). 

• The author states that an insult in itself is not fallacious, (122) but ad hominem is used in a way to attempt to undermine an opponent's argument. (122).

• Based on Langer: LANGER, SUSANNE K (1953)(1967) An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, Dover Publications, New York. (Philosophy).

• Langer in archives 

• A = Disagreement, B = Hatred 

• (a) : ˜ (b) (Disagreement equals not hatred) (Disagreement is not equal to hatred) 

• (a) ⊨ ˜ (b) Disagreement entails not hatred) (Disagreement does not entail hatred) 

• (a) ⊃ ˜ (b) Disagreement is the same not hatred) (Disagreement is not the same as hatred)