Ad hominem (Latin for 'to the person'), short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments that are usually fallacious. Often currently...
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Reductio ad absurdum. The argumentum variant takes its form from the names of many classic fallacies such as argumentum ad hominem. The ad Nazium variant...
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Appeal to consequences (redirect from Argumentum ad consequentiam)
Appeal to consequences, also known as argumentum ad consequentiam (Latin for "argument to the consequence"), is an argument that concludes a hypothesis...
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Retrieved 2013-07-27. "Logical Fallacy: Argumentum ad Hominem". Fallacyfiles.org. Retrieved 2013-07-27. Ad hominem fallacy, Logical Fallacies, Formal and...
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In an argument, ad personam, short for argumentum ad personam, is a tactic aimed at discrediting one's opponent by attacking his personality, unrelated...
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Argumentum ad baculum (Latin for "argument to the cudgel" or "appeal to the stick") is the fallacy committed when one makes an appeal to force to bring...
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An argumentum ad crumenam argument, also known as an argument to the purse, is the informal fallacy of drawing conclusions based on the speaker's financial...
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person is about to say. Poisoning the well can be a special case of argumentum ad hominem, and the term was first used with this sense by John Henry Newman...
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Argumentum ad lazarum or appeal to poverty is the informal fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct solely because the speaker is poor, or it is incorrect...
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Argument from authority (redirect from Inverse ad hominem)
person who is speaking, such as in the ad hominem fallacy. For this argument, Locke coined the term argumentum ad verecundiam (appeal to shamefacedness/modesty)...
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Henry Johnstone Jr. (section Ad hominem)
December 2016. Johnstone, Henry W. (January 1952). "Philosophy and argumentum ad hominem". The Journal of Philosophy. 49 (15): 489–498. doi:10.2307/2021667...
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conversation to an ad nauseam state in order to then assert one's position as correct due to it not having been contradicted is also called argumentum ad infinitum...
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Argument from fallacy (redirect from Argumentum ad logicam)
from fallacy, as is the case in Charlie's argument. Argumentum ad logicam can be used as an ad hominem appeal: by impugning the opponent's credibility or...
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List of Latin phrases (A) (redirect from Ad terminum qui praeteriit)
Retrieved 5 August 2024. Potter, David S. (2014). The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180–395. Routledge. p. 77. ISBN 9781134694778. An explanation of Livy's usage...
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In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for 'appeal to the people') is a fallacious argument which is based on claiming a truth or affirming...
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Argument from ignorance (redirect from Argumentum ad ignorantium)
Argument from ignorance (from Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary...
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red herring (Ignoratio elenchi) Insulting someone's character (argumentum ad hominem) Assuming the conclusion of an argument, a kind of circular reasoning...
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uncritically". Mohammed Hussein Heikal regarded Muir's work as an argumentum ad hominem fallacy. Albert Hourani (1980) said Muir's writing, while "still...
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Association fallacy (redirect from Argumentum ad odium)
association or an appeal to spite (Latin: argumentum ad odium). Guilt by association is similar to ad hominem arguments which attack the speaker rather...
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Ergo decedo (redirect from Argumentum ad somalium)
group. Argumentum ergo decedo is generally categorized as a type of informal fallacy and more specifically as a species of the subclass of ad hominem informal...
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Appeal to pity (redirect from Argumentum ad misericordiam)
An appeal to pity (also called argumentum ad misericordiam, the sob story, or the Galileo argument) is a fallacy in which someone tries to win support...
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Tu quoque (redirect from Ad hominem tu quoque)
opponent appears hypocritical. This specious reasoning is a special type of ad hominem attack. The Oxford English Dictionary cites John Cooke's 1614 stage play...
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Appeal to novelty (redirect from Argumentum ad novitatem)
The appeal to novelty (also called appeal to modernity or argumentum ad novitatem) is a logical fallacy in which one prematurely claims that an idea or...
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Appeal to fear (redirect from Argumentum ad metam)
An appeal to fear (also called argumentum ad metum or argumentum in terrorem) is a fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for an idea by...
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Appeal to tradition (redirect from Argumentum ad antiquitatem)
Appeal to tradition (also known as argumentum ad antiquitatem or argumentum ad antiquitam, appeal to antiquity, or appeal to common practice) is a claim...
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doi:10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00361-6. Jackson, John P. (June 2006). "Argumentum Ad Hominem in the Science of Race". Argumentation and Advocacy. 43 (1): 14–28...
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Argument from silence (redirect from Argumentum ex silentio)
To make an argument from silence (Latin: argumentum ex silentio) is to express a conclusion that is based on the absence of statements in historical documents...
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Argumentum ad baculum Argumentum ad crumenam Argumentum ad hominem Argumentum ad ignorantium Argumentum ad lapidem Argumentum ad lazarum Argumentum ad...
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counterpart as Gutmensch took the discussion to a personal (argumentum ad hominem = "ad personam") and emotional level, in order to avoiding a discussion...
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origin of all force, is infinite mind and will. This is an ingenious argumentum ad hominem, but we are far from accepting any such transmutation of force as...
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