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Truth in the universities.(Letter to the editor)
SIR: I am appalled that Quadrant would publish Robert Manne's "Keith Windschuttle and the Khmer Rouge" (June 2006).
Manne is trying to justify his argumentum ad hominem on Windschuttle, that he is attracted to extreme positions. Obviously this invalid form of argument is not understood by people today. It is a form of argument where you personally attack an opponent, which leads the feeble-minded to denigrate their ideas.
Or has argumentum ad hominem become valid since I did Philosophy I over thirty years ago? If it has, then intellectual debate in Australia is deader than the dodo.
I would argue--uncertainly now--that the value of Windschuttle's ideas has nothing to do with any tendency he might have to extremes. Anyway, having read a couple of his books, I find such an accusation laughable. So much so, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Truth in the universities.(Letter to the editor)