Quote Originally Posted by pseudolus
Ignoratio elenchi - it is all Ant uses. Socrates was sentenced to death and one of the reasons was that he taught people to win arguments using techniques such as ignoratio elenchi. Indeed, the Socratic method is based around ignoratio elenchi, Its a bit unfair though, as really Socrates, which any person who has read Plato would know, never used or taught the Socratic method at all. Socrates, unlike his accusers, and Ant it seems, was more than prepared to debate the actual meat and bones of a discussion. His accusers, and Ant it would seem, does not like this, and they themselves revert to the Socratic method which is a very low form of debating. It is what people nowadays call the Small Win. Politicians use this crass technique continually and is usually what is happening when they appear to never answer an actual question.
I just asked a question, Pseudo.

Why is it every time you're asked a question you devolve to name-calling. You're the one employing logical fallacies and never answering the actual question (whilst demanding people answer yours and taking the absence of a negative as proof of the positive).