Statement #o4 Discussion

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Jill: "I think the gun control bill shouldn't be supported because it won't be effective and will waste money."
Bill: "Well, just last month you supported the bill. So I guess you're wrong now."

Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
AKA "You Too Fallacy"
Category: Fallacies of Relevance (Red Herrings) → Ad hominems (Genetic Fallacies)

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" has the following form:

Person A makes claim X.
Person B asserts that A's actions or past claims are inconsistent with the truth of claim X.
Therefore X is false.

The fact that a person makes inconsistent claims does not make any particular claim he makes false (although of any pair of inconsistent claims only one can be true-but both can be false). Also, the fact that a person's claims are not consistent with his actions might indicate that the person is a hypocrite but this does not prove his claims are false.

Ad Hominem Tu Quoque

1,340 Total Answer Attempts 52%
702 Correctly Popped Fallacies
638 Incorrectly Un/Popped

Example from LaBossiere's Forty Two Fallacies

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Most Common Responses

702 - Ad Hominem Tu Quoque
53 - Circumstantial Ad Hominem
41 - Personal Attack
34 - Post Hoc
34 - Poisoning the Well
32 - Appeal to Ridicule
30 - Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief
28 - Relativist Fallacy
24 - Guilt by Association
22 - Burden of Proof
21 - Fallacy of Composition
21 - Red Herring
20 - False Dilemma
20 - Genetic Fallacy
18 - Peer Pressure
17 - Appeal to Tradition
16 - Fallacy of Division
16 - Appeal to Belief
16 - Ad Hominem
16 - Appeal to Common Practice
16 - Confusing Cause and Effect
15 - Hasty Generalization
15 - Begging the Question
14 - Biased Generalization
12 - Misleading Vividness
12 - Appeal to Spite
11 - Appeal to Flattery
11 - Slippery Slope
8 - Gambler's Fallacy
8 - Special Pleading
8 - Appeal to Popularity
6 - Appeal to Novelty
5 - Middle Ground
5 - Appeal to Authority
5 - Ignoring a Common Cause
4 - Appeal to Pity
3 - Appeal to Emotion
1 - Appeal to Fear

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