Tuesday, May 02, 2006

What is an ad hominem argument or attack?

ad hominem arguments have many flavors. Combined with the strawman fallacy:

ad hominem (abusive): instead of attacking an assertion, the argument attacks the person who made the assertion.

Example: You may argue that God doesn't exist, but you are just following a fad.

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