An ad hominem argument (from the Latin meaning "to the person") is a strategy which employs personal attacks against someone rather than addressing the person's argument. Its approach is to cast the person in a negative light and thereby weaken the force of any argumentative position the ...
Thinking in these cases inevitably moves to ad hominem arguments, focused in the person of the opponent not the issue at question. Denial of responsibility. As Bauman (1989) notes this leads of denial of responsibility and shifting of blame (cf. Cohen, 2001). This is characteristic of ...
Polarization.This involves polarizing ideas and groups, focusing on a defensive stance against other groups (Cohen, 2001). Thinking in these cases inevitably moves toad hominemarguments, focused in the person of the opponent not the issue at question. Denial of responsibility.AsBauman (1989)notes t...
Anderson’s CV (lifted ad-hominem from Wiki—sorry ‘bout that!) because my story intersects, in a meaningless, but personally significant way, with hers. Not a big thing, but it sticks in my head. Okay, my Gramma Duffy was a proud member of the DAR, a stiff-necked New Englander, w...
For all things had entered upon a new phase, the Word arranging after a new manner the advent in the flesh, that He might win back to God that human nature (hominem) which had departed from God; and therefore men were taught to worship God after a new fashion, but not another god, ...
Ad hominemrefers to “attacking the person” instead of addressing the argument the person is making.Tu quoquemeans roughly “you do it, too,” and it is a kind ofad hominemargument, as in“you alight! I learned it by watching you!”I’ll mostly stick withad hominemhere, but you shoul...