JD writes: By the same logic, I can call you Jezebel Taylor and Kevin "Dunce Deegan" and and so on. And "ad
hom" has no such limitations except here on
TT. Ad hom is an attack on the person or words
of an individual "rather than an appeal to pure reason" (Webster's
Encyclopedic
Dictionary.)
Carnal reasoning is never pure JD - see definition
of Ad hom attack below.
Attacking the Person
(argumentum ad hominem)
Definition:
The person presenting an argument is attacked instead
of the argument itself. This takes many forms. For example,
the
person's character, nationality or religion may be attacked.
Alternatively, it may be pointed out that a person stands to
gain from a
favourable outcome. Or, finally, a person may be attacked by association, or
by the company he keeps.
There are three major forms of Attacking the Person:
(1) ad hominem (abusive): instead of attacking an
assertion, the argument attacks the person who made the
assertion.
(2) ad hominem (circumstantial): instead of attacking an
assertion the author points to the relationship between the
person making
the assertion and the person's circumstances.
(3) ad hominem (tu quoque):
this form of attack on the person notes that a person does not practise what
he preaches.
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