If you’ve been in on any online debates, you’ve probably heard of the ad hominem argument, an “argument against the person” in other words, attacks on someone’s character. Here’s one formal definition ...

If you’ve been in on any online debates, you’ve probably heard of the ad hominem argument, an “argument against the person” in other words, attacks on someone’s character. Here’s one formal definition ...

One of the sorriest aspects of almost all political discussions nowadays is how often they seem to degenerate into rude ad hominem attacks rather than more reasoned arguments over the pros and cons of ...

Having just recently begun reading John Guillory’s Professing Criticism, I have been following The Chronicle’s reviews of the book with great interest. Guillory’s work piqued my curiosity in part ...

Here at Snopes, we encounter our fair share of logical fallacies, or errors in reasoning, that tend to be more persuasive than they ought to be, and are based on poor or faulty logic. In previous ...

I was encouraged that Bruce Menzel’s letter to the editor, pushing back on the critics of Linda Harmon’s opinion piece about the Come to the Table group, refrained from using ad hominem attacks. That ...

Why do Hollywood and the movie industry continue to promote killing and violence? They have known for years that the youth are the movie-goers. A constant display of evil and murder serves no purpose ...