Ken Smith hasn't quite got the hang of reductio ad absurdum. He can't cry foul because I reduce to absurdity his principle by applying it to examples and fields he hadn't thought of - that's what reductio ad absurdum is! However, in his comments about me he shows he's grasped argumentum ad hominem - rarely the hallmark of a strong case.
William Gibson, Director, Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University.
