Comments by "EebstertheGreat" (@EebstertheGreat) on "The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT" video.

  1. It's ad hominem, Latin for "at [or against] the [or a] person." Originally used in the grammatically correct Latin as a prepositional phrase, as for instance "an attack ad hominem," its usage shifted somewhat into a generic adjective (e.g. " ad hominem fallacy") or noun (e.g. "supported with an ad hominem"). In Latin, hominem is the accusative singular form of homo, meaning "person" or "human". The accusative plural would be homines, as in "they directed their attacks ad homines —against all of us," but I can't say I've actually seen it used this way in English. The phrase would not naturally ever be pluralized in English except when being used as a noun (short for " ad hominem argument"), in which case I suppose you would just add an s like soslothful did. That would make it " ad hominems " (italicization optional). It makes sense, but I wouldn't recommend using it for a paper in school.
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  2. +Corey Lando But how do we know there are any bald people in London? Maybe by some astronomical coincidence, or as a result of some program we haven't heard about, everyone in London has hair. The point is that no matter the distribution, as long as the number of hairs on the head of the hairiest person in London is smaller than the number of people living there, at least two necessarily have the exact same number of hairs.
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