• Ad hominem (Latin for 'to the person'), short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments that are fallacious. Often nowadays this...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • An argumentum ad crumenam argument, also known as an argument to the purse, is the informal fallacy of concluding that a statement is correct because...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • S T U V full References 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • opponent is 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The appeal to novelty (also called appeal to modernity or argumentum ad novitatem) is a fallacy in which one prematurely claims that an idea or proposal...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • Appeal to the stone, also known as argumentum ad lapidem, is a logical fallacy that dismisses an argument as untrue or absurd. The dismissal is made by...
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  • 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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  • used in running prose. 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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    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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