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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."
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:
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1,278 Total Answer Attempts 52%
666 Correctly Popped Fallacies
612 Incorrectly Un/Popped


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Most Common Responses53 - Circumstantial Ad Hominem 40 - Personal Attack 32 - Poisoning the Well 31 - Post Hoc 31 - Appeal to Ridicule 29 - Appeal to the Consequences of a Belief 27 - Relativist Fallacy 22 - Guilt by Association 22 - Burden of Proof 21 - Fallacy of Composition 20 - False Dilemma 20 - Genetic Fallacy 20 - Red Herring 18 - Peer Pressure 16 - Appeal to Tradition 16 - Ad Hominem 16 - Appeal to Common Practice 15 - Fallacy of Division 15 - Appeal to Belief 14 - Hasty Generalization 14 - Begging the Question 14 - Confusing Cause and Effect 13 - Biased Generalization 12 - Appeal to Spite 11 - Appeal to Flattery 9 - Misleading Vividness 9 - Slippery Slope 8 - Gambler's Fallacy 8 - Special Pleading 8 - Appeal to Popularity 6 - Appeal to Novelty 5 - Middle Ground 5 - Ignoring a Common Cause 4 - Appeal to Authority 4 - Appeal to Pity 3 - Appeal to Emotion 1 - Appeal to Fear |
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