Statement #o2 Discussion

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John: "Sally was saying that people shouldn't hunt animals or kill them for food or clothing. She also..."
Wanda: "Well, Sally is a sissy crybaby who loves animals way too much."
John: "So?"
Wanda: "That means she is wrong about that animal stuff. Also, if we weren't supposed to eat 'em, they wouldn't be made of meat."

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:

Person A makes claim X.
Person B makes an attack on person A.
Therefore A's claim is false.

The reason why an ad Hominem (of any kind) is a fallacy is that the character, circumstances, or actions of a person do not (in most cases) have a bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made (or the quality of the argument being made).

Ad Hominem

1,224 Total Answer Attempts 50%
607 Correctly Popped Fallacies
617 Incorrectly Un/Popped

Example from LaBossiere's Forty Two Fallacies

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Most Common Responses

607 - Ad Hominem
59 - Personal Attack
55 - Appeal to Ridicule
38 - Poisoning the Well
35 - Circumstantial Ad Hominem
34 - Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
27 - Confusing Cause and Effect
26 - Appeal to Belief
25 - Fallacy of Composition
25 - Appeal to Spite
19 - Biased Generalization
18 - Begging the Question
17 - Hasty Generalization
16 - Red Herring
16 - Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief
16 - Appeal to Emotion
15 - Genetic Fallacy
14 - False Dilemma
14 - Relativist Fallacy
13 - Slippery Slope
13 - Guilt by Association
11 - Post Hoc
11 - Appeal to Common Practice
11 - Gambler's Fallacy
11 - Middle Ground
10 - Misleading Vividness
8 - Fallacy of Division
8 - Burden of Proof
8 - Appeal to Authority
8 - Special Pleading
7 - Appeal to Popularity
7 - Ignoring a Common Cause
7 - Appeal to Tradition
6 - Peer Pressure
4 - Appeal to Pity
3 - Appeal to Fear
2 - Appeal to Novelty

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