A more specialized personal attack goes by the name of the inconsistency ad hominem. Here one dismisses a claim on the grounds of the speaker's inconsistency. ... But in one variety of the inconsistency ad hominem, the contradiction between two beliefs reaches back to something that a person said in the past. "How can you...
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Tu quoque (pronounced /tuːˈkwoʊkwiː/ , from Latin for "You, too" or "You, also") is a Latin term that describes a kind of logical fallacy. A tu quoque argument attempts to discredit the opp...
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Ad Hominem (Argument To The Man): attacking the person instead of attacking his argument. For example, "Von Daniken's books about ancient astronauts are worthless because he is a convicted forger and embezzler." (Which is true, but that's not why they're worthless.)
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Description and examples of Ad Hominem Tu Quoque fallacy. ... Also Known as: "You Too Fallacy" ... This fallacy is committed when it is concluded that a person's claim is false because 1) it is inconsistent with something else a person has said or 2) what a person says is inconsistent with her actions. This type of "argument"
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Ad hominem attack on testimony proper. Judge all info about past behavior, special interest, character of person testifying. Inconsistency-Ad H ...
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Ad hominem; An ad hominem argument is any that attempts to counter anothers claims or conclusions by attacking the person, rather than addressing the argument itself. True believers will often commit this fallacy by countering the arguments of skeptics by stating ... Inconsistency; Applying criteria or rules to one belief,
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An attack on the speaker for switching sides is an example of an ad hominem that attacks inconsistency of beliefs, actions, or statements in the person making the argument. While this may (or may not) tell you something about that person, it tells you nothing about the argument itself.
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Introduction to Ad Hominem Fallacies ... One of the most common non-rational appeals is an argumentum ad hominem--or, as the Latin phrase suggests, an "argument against the person" (and not against the ideas he or she is presenting).
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When a circumstantial ad hominem argument explicitly or implicitly charges the opponents with inconsistency (among their beliefs, or between what they profess and what they practice), that is clearly one kind of abuse.
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A special case of Ad Hominem is phony refutation, in which one dismisses an argument or position by citing inconsistency between the speaker's words and actions.
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