"Refusing to take an expressed idea at face value, assumes it is determined wholly by the context in which it is formulated, its social habitat... [This] is used as a debunking device.... The Freudian who dismisses an opponent as merely working off a repression or the Marxist who interprets social and political opinions as simple expressions of class interest.... This is little more than a sophisticated form of the logical fallacy..., the argument ad hominem... further evidence that these disciplines are not the sciences they claim to be.... Even if the debunker correctly identifies the motivation behind his adversary's position, that says nothing about the validity of the adversary's argument or the truth of his conclusion."
Pages 153-156.
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