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

896 Total Answer Attempts 54%
481 Correctly Popped Fallacies
415 Incorrectly Un/Popped

Example from LaBossiere's Forty Two Fallacies

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Most Common Responses

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

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