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August 18, 2024 - Another fallacy would be Post-hoc reasoning, from the Latin Post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this): If B follows A, then A must have caused B. A final example would be the Slippery Slope argument. Here you take your opponent’s argument down a faulty pathway in order to predict dire consequences, or to reduce it to absurdity (Reductio ad adsurdum). What these all have in common, though, is a certain cleverness. Even though fallacious, they can be powerful in presentation. The lowest form of fallacy, though, and the one Trump triumphs with, is the Ad Hominem attack.
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February 6, 2025 - Circumstantial ad hominem (or appeal to motive) argues that a person’s circumstances, such as their job, political affiliation, or other vested interests, motivate their argument and thus it must be biased and false. For example, a salesperson may tell you that the pair of jeans you’re trying on looks good on you, and you may half-jokingly point out that of course they think so since they want to make a sale.
CMV: Heuristics like "ad hominem" are actually valid tactics in modern debate.
This argument is completely invalid because I can tell from the tone of your post and word choice that you clearly have an anti-capitalist agenda. More on reddit.com
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July 4, 2019Help with finding ad hominem fallacy in real-life?
Insulting someone is not an ad hominem fallacy, but rather saying their argument is incorrect because of some irrelevant feature they possess is. More on reddit.com
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October 11, 2019CMV: In the last few years, the two most common informal fallacies on the left (apropos of cultural and political debates) include the genetic fallacy and circumstantial ad hominem, while on the right they are irrelevant/false authority and abusive ad hominem.
On the left, the genetic fallacy seems to be used quite a bit. For example, one of the reasons often given for eradicating the filibuster is that it has been used in the past for racist purposes This isn't a genetic fallacy. A genetic fallacy would involve this as the only reason given in an argument. Examining the origins of something as one of many aspects of inquiry in an argument doesn't make that argument fallacious. More broadly, though, your view is kinda meaningless, because fallacies are not metrizable such that we can talk about which ones occur more often than others. More on reddit.com
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December 9, 2021CMV: Ad Hominems that are based on actions are useful and acceptable in most circumstances
My view is not that personal attacks are always permissible. Ad Hominems are a logical fallacy, and should not be used in debates of formal logic. It is permissible, it's that it's just a known fault in human thinking. I think ad hominems are permissible when they suggest that the source is not a rational person The person not being a rational person doesn't mean the argument is incorrect or unsound. If their argument is incorrect or unsound then you should be able to demonstrate that by addressing the argument. For example, if a person is arguing that an act should not be a crime, it is relevant that person has been convicted of the crime. This is a presumption that can be defeated with other evidence, but it increases the degree of scrutiny with which other parties view the evidence. No, that's not really relevant at all. Political prisoners are a perfect example of why it's not relevant. If someone is saying that people should adopt a practice for their health, it is okay to point out that the source is obese or constantly sick. No, it's really not. A smoker that tells you not to start smoking because it's addictive and bad for your health isn't wrong. Are they a hypocrite? Sure, but they're not wrong. Something being a fallacy speaks to it's "truth value" not whether it's convincing. It is shifting the topic from the argument to the character flaw, and causes the person to have to defend themselves rather than the argument. More on reddit.com
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June 10, 2025What is argumentum ad hominem?
Argumentum ad hominem means “argument to the person” in Latin and it is commonly referred to as ad hominem argument or personal attack. Ad hominem arguments are used in debates to refute an argument by attacking the character of the person making it, instead of the logic or premise of the argument itself.
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What happens in an ad hominem persuasive technique?
Ad hominem is a persuasive technique where someone tries to undermine the opponent’s argument by personally attacking them. · In this way, one can redirect the discussion away from the main topic and to the opponent’s personality without engaging with their viewpoint. When the opponent’s personality is irrelevant to the discussion, we call it an ad hominem fallacy.
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What is ad hominem tu quoque?
Ad hominem tu quoque (‘you too”) is an attempt to rebut a claim by attacking its proponent on the grounds that they uphold a double standard or that they don’t practice what they preach. For example, someone is telling you that you should drive slowly otherwise you’ll get a speeding ticket one of these days, and you reply “but you used to get them all the time!”
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November 29, 2023 - This is a perfect example of an ad hominem attack. Senator Sanders' political affiliations/economic policies have absolutely no bearing on his argument that America should offer free higher education to all its citizens.
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January 11, 2025 - Trump is especially prone to using ad hominem arguments, and vague attacks against Biden, the Democrats, and the media dominate his Twitter feed. These baseless accusations have been the focus of the political climate recently, and this pushes essential policy issues into the background.
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February 17, 2016 - The obvious point is that articles ... the “ad hominem”—it’s another of those fallacies that teases the distinction between validity and effectiveness. Shouldn’t Ted Cruz’s face or remarks he made in college be irrelevant to his candidacy in 2016? This was the conclusion I felt compelled to draw when I first read the two articles above. Then again, the refrain that we need more political discourse ...
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Final face-off between Trump and Biden is an ad-hominem presidential debate – Annenberg Media
October 26, 2020 - For Trump, it featured the repetition of old talking points and political tactics. For Biden, much of the debate was dedicated to correcting mistruths told about himself. The heart of either candidates' central messaging could be seen in the final question: Of what each would say to those who voted against them. Trump responded with a soaring review of his own administration: “Everybody had the best numbers,” he said, before repeating the lie that Biden would raise everyone’s taxes.
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August 24, 2022 - It also depends on whether you count disparaging remarks directed at a group, such as “Democratic Clown Show” (February 29) and exclude or include his indirect disparaging remarks, such as “the real politicians ate them [Tom Steyer and Mike Bloomberg] up and spit them out” (February 29). I did not count these. I only counted the obvious examples, such as when the President called CNN reporter John Harwood “a total loser!” (February 28).[i] ... As rhetorical scholars, we could choose to see these ad hominems as another example of Trump’s manner of rejecting deliberation “as a communal goal” (Neville-Shepherd 175).
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Logical Fallacies
Example: “Congressman Peters is a scoundrel with three ethics violations.
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December 11, 2025 - ... A makes a claim a. B attacks ... to illustrate the above is: A businessman and a politician are giving a lecture at a university about how good his company is and how nicely the system works....
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In this example of an abusive ad hominem argument, Clinton attacks Trump for being racist. She · mentions how Trump based the start of his political activity on a racist lie about president Obama.
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For example: Please concentrate and read the proposal · again or You are an educated man, why do you let them write questions for you which · you don’t even understand or I have been explaining this for two hours and you still don’t ... Parliamentary debate and increase culture of communication in political discourse. ... Kennedy). New York: Oxford University Press. 2. Brinton, A. (1995) The Ad Hominem” In: H.V.
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August 21, 2024 - Tu quoque involves discrediting an argument by labeling the speaker as hypocritical and inconsistent (e.g., a politician advocating for funding public transportation may be dismissed by critics who point out that the politician regularly uses private jets for travel). Guilt by association targets a person based on perceived association with a group or individual (e.g., someone might argue that a professor who was educated at a controversial university is untrustworthy based solely on that association). Abusive ad hominem involves insulting an individual based on irrelevant personal characteristics, often appealing to societal prejudices (e.g., a person might discredit a CEO’s opinion by saying that, as a woman, she is “too emotional” to be a leader).
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which resulted in the users active in Political subforum post- ing insulting comments in other forums as well, hence, sig- nificantly increasing the ad hominem usage. We also release ... Studies on CreateDebate: Abbott et al. (2016) developed · Internet Argument Corpus (v2.0), a collection of corpora for
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October 7, 2020 - Ad hominem is Latin for “to the person,” meaning it is an attack on a person’s character, personality or other attributes. In short, it’s a distraction. Using this method makes the argument all about the person and not at all about what they’re saying. Examples include, “There’s nothing smart about you, Joe,” from President Trump and “The fact is this man has no idea what he’s talking about,” from Joe Biden. Both of these quotes illustrate the emptiness that ad hominem attacks bring to an argument.
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1 week ago - National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - The effect of ad hominem attacks on the evaluation of claims promoted by scientists (Mar. 12, 2026) (Show more) ... The use of ad hominem attacks is a common feature of modern politics, particularly in campaign advertising.
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2. A local mayor's position on whether or not to allow a large chain store to build in the city is attacked because she has previously taken a different position. 3. A political candidate's speech about the dangers of drug use is attacked because there is record of him using drugs while in college.
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April 9, 2018 - “Men have yet to master disagreeing without mixing their frustrations with it. Some hurl out insults while others throw out half-truths. Combine these and you get ad hominem bedlam.”