Title: Theory / Unimportant / Human / Arguing
Tags: prefix examplesSwitchExample1

Name: Name-calling
Definition: Answering to an argument by speaking to an unrelated point about the author of the argument
Page: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Chapter: 1
Context: Disagreement (Graham)
Notation: DH0
Example: u r a fag!!!!!!!!!!
Example2: The author is a self-important dilettante.

Name: Ad Hominem
Definition: An answer to an argument, speaking of why this author would argue this particular way
Page: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Chapter: 1
Context: Disagreement (Graham)
Notation: DH1
Example: if a senator wrote an article saying senators' salaries should be increased, one could respond:
Of course he would say that. He's a senator.
Example2: Saying that an author lacks the authority to write about a topic

Name: Responding to tone
Definition: An answer to an argument, which answer to the way the argument is stated and not to the argument
Page: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Chapter: 1
Context: Disagreement (Graham)
Notation: DH2
Example: I can't believe the author dismisses intelligent design in such a cavalier fashion.

Name: Contradiction
Definition: Stating the opposite case, without argumenting
Page: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Chapter: 1
Context: Disagreement (Graham)
Notation: DH3
Example: Intelligent design is a legitimate scientific theory.
Applied to: I can't believe the author dismisses intelligent design.

Name: Counterargument
Definition: contradiction plus reasoning and/or evidence. Not necesarrily contradicting the original argument.
Page: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Chapter: 1
Context: Disagreement (Graham)
Notation: DH4

Name: Refutation
Definition: Quoting a part of the argument, and stating why it does not hold
Page: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Chapter: 1
Context: Disagreement (Graham)
Notation: DH5

Name: Refuting the Central Point.
Definition: Refutation of a an essential part of the argument
Page: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Chapter: 1
Context: Disagreement (Graham)
Notation: DH6

Name: Improve the Argument, then Refute Its Central Point.
Definition: Fix the argument of the opposite side, and then Refute the Central Point
Page: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FhH8m5n8qGSSHsAgG/better-disagreement
Chapter: 1
Context: Disagreement (Graham)
Notation: DH7