Tu quoque is a type ofad hominemargumentin which an accused person turns an allegation back on his or her accuser, thus creating a logicalfallacy. In the English language, the phrase generally functions as a noun, however, it's also used attributively to modify other nouns, as in "a tu...
Tu Quoque Fallacy Within philosophy, the study of logic identifies and categorizes fallacies. Fallacies are arguments using faulty or flawed logic to reach a conclusion. Moreover, fallacy types are grouped and have specific names. Under the argument ad hominem (attack on person), there are ...
The appeal to authority fallacy occurs when conclusions are deemed true because of expert endorsements, regardless of the experts’ knowledge.
Proof Fallacy (Argument from Ignorance)This is when someone assumes something is true because it hasn't been proven false or vice versa.Example: "No one has ever proven that aliens don't exist, so they must be real."Tu Quoque Fallacy...
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The tu quoquefallacy is a popular form of the ad hominem attack and shows how a true statement is not always a substantial argument. Thetu quoquefallacy is an appeal to hypocrisy, or a “you too!” argument. Let’s say a dad catches his teenager smoking. The dad is a smoker himself,...
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Just as there can be negative attacks (or insults) against someone that aren't ad hominem arguments, there can also be a valid ad hominem argument that's not a fallacy. This works to convince the opposition of a premise using information that the opposition already believes to be true,...
When you’re actively being misrepresented by a straw man, stay calm and try to avoid straw-manning your opponent in return or letting your argument devolve into other fallacies, like the tu quoque fallacy (wherein you accuse your opponent of the same wrongdoing you yourself are accused of)...
Whataboutism is a type of tu quoquefallacy. With this fallacy, the arguer reacts to an assertion with a separate criticism rather than addressing the initial claim. Like the red herring fallacy, whataboutism attempts to divert an argument from its original topic to a new one. But instead ...