Snopestionary: The 'Ad Hominem' Logical Fallacy Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theories our newsroom investigates.

Arguments ad hominem are arguments directed ... (1955), who counted them among the rhetorical tricks and fallacies in his Sophistical ... dedicated a book chapter to the question of how and why ...

Fallacies include ad hominem, appeals to authority, the fallacy fallacy, circular arguments, etc. Jared Henderson. ... 5 books that helped me reinvent—and keep going.

But the ad hominem fallacy isn’t limited to name-calling. Stephen Colbert regularly makes fun of politicians’ appearances, especially but not limited to Republicans (Henderson, 2019).Colbert ...

In his new book, Media Argumentation: Dialectic, Persuasion, and Rhetoric, University of Winnipeg philosopher Douglas Walton proposes that fallacies such as the ad hominem are better understood as ...

Eugene Volokh | 6.16.2022 8:01 AM This heuristic seems similar to the ad hominem fallacy, in which a speaker asks listeners to reject certain arguments because the arguments are promoted by a ...

ad hominem \ad-HAH-muh-nem\ DEFINITION adjective 1 : appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect 2 : marked by or being an attack on an opponent’s character rather than by an ...