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You can't believe Jane, she's an idiot!
Ad Hominem
AKA Ad Hominem Abusive, Personal Attack Category: Fallacies of Relevance (Red Herrings) → Ad hominems (Genetic Fallacies) Translated from Latin to English, "ad Hominem" means "against the man" or "against the person." An ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument. Typically, this fallacy involves two steps. First, an attack against the character of person making the claim, her circumstances, or her actions is made (or the character, circumstances, or actions of the person reporting the claim). Second, this attack is taken to be evidence against the claim or argument the person in question is making (or presenting). This type of "argument" has the following form:
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250 Total Answer Attempts 67%
167 Correctly Popped Fallacies
83 Incorrectly Un/Popped


Most Common Responses17 - Personal Attack 13 - Appeal to Ridicule 5 - Misleading Vividness 5 - Appeal to Spite 4 - Poisoning the Well 3 - Hasty Generalization 3 - Guilt by Association 3 - Middle Ground 3 - Peer Pressure 3 - Appeal to Pity 2 - Circumstantial Ad Hominem 2 - Biased Generalization 2 - Special Pleading 2 - Fallacy of Composition 2 - Fallacy of Division 2 - Ad Hominem Tu Quoque 1 - Slippery Slope 1 - Confusing Cause and Effect 1 - Appeal to Tradition 1 - Appeal to Flattery 1 - Ignoring a Common Cause 1 - Appeal to Authority 1 - Burden of Proof 1 - Appeal to Belief 1 - False Dilemma 1 - Appeal to Common Practice 1 - Appeal to Emotion 1 - Appeal to Fear |
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