File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 132


Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 11:45:46 -0400
From: Stirling Newberry <allegro-AT-thecia.net>
Subject: Re: PLC: Arguing from ignorance


>Stirling,
>	My five years of Latin are far behind me, but don't you think that
>the 'ad'
>here is an ablative, an ablative of means rather than a preposition?
>Reg
>
>Stirling Newberry wrote:

We would then translate that as "an argument by ignorance".





Stirling Newberry
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