Hyperlinks connect to examples of the fallacies and their proper identification ... If they have not used it, then to raise questions about their authority is to commit the fallacy of ad hominem. (2) ...

Update: Thanks to the reader who has alerted me that the correct Latin phrase would be pro homine (and that in Latin rhetoric the ad hominem fallacy covers arguments based on either the merits or ...

When considering your argument or the arguments of others, writers and readers need to be aware of logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are found in many places—ads, politics, movies. Logical ...

a variation of the classical ad hominem fallacy, an example of which is the sporting analogy of playing the man rather than the ball. He explains that patent offices, when assessing an invention's ...