Ad Hominem is Latin for ‘to the man’ and describes an argument where the focus of the attack is not on the views a person holds but on the person themselves. It is an attempt to distract from the matter at hand by introducing irrelevant details aimed at discrediting the individual.
It’s easy to assume that Trump’s penchant for name calling means he’s constantly engaged in Ad Hominem fallacies, but the truth is a bit more nuanced than that, as we discuss in this episode of Fallacious Trump.
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