• Whiskey Pickle
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      1 year ago

      “i know your are but what am i?” is not an effective form of argument.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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        1 year ago

        That’s not the argument being made, but I guess it would take basic reading comprehension to understand that.

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          1 year ago

          Ad hominem

          Ad hominem (Latin for ‘to the person’), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a term that refers to several types of arguments, most of which are fallacious. Typically this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself. This avoids genuine debate by creating a diversion to some irrelevant but often highly charged issue. The most common form of this fallacy is “A makes a claim x, B asserts that A holds a property that is unwelcome, and hence B concludes that argument x is wrong”.