Ad hominem, short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments that 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 personal attack as a diversion often using a totally irrelevant, but often highly charged attribute of the opponent's character or background. The most common form of this fallacy is "A" makes a claim of "fact," to which "B" asserts that "A" has a personal trait, quality or physical attribute that is repugnant thereby going entirely off-topic, and hence "B" concludes that "A" has their "fact" wrong - without ever addressing the point of the debate. Many contemporary politicians routinely use ad hominem attacks, which can be encapsulated to a derogatory nickname for a political opponent.
Michael Myers, Mike Mayers, or Mike Myers may refer to:
Scott Walker may refer to:
Michael or Mike Foster may refer to:
Michael Sullivan (or variants) may refer to:
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Michael or Mike Green may refer to:
Michael or Mike White may refer to:
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Michael or Mike Brown may refer to:
Michael or Mike McDonald may refer to:
Reggie Barnett Walton is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He is a former presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Michael Hart, Mike Hart, or Mickey Hart may refer to:
St Paul's Catholic School is a comprehensive co-educational secondary school in Leadenhall, Milton Keynes, England. It has specialist science and language college status and is also a Teacher Training College.
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Joseph, Joe or Jo Walton may refer to:
Walton is a toponymic surname or placename of Anglo-Saxon origins. It derives from a place with the suffix tun and one of the prefixes wald, walesc ('foreigner') or walh. First recorded as a surname in Oxfordshire in the person of Odo de Wolton on the Hundred Rolls in 1273. People with the name include:
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