{"id":88,"date":"2015-12-14T11:49:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T11:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falacias.escepticos.es\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:20:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:20:15","slug":"argumento-ad-hominem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/argumento-ad-hominem\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to the person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Since I have no arguments I\u2019ll take it out on you, let\u2019s see if that way\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/12eng-1.gif\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-918 size-full\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/12eng-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"oculto\" style=\"visibility: hidden; display: none;\">\n<p id=\"p1\">https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/12eng-1.gif<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<button onclick=\"copiarAlPortapapeles('p1')\">Click here to copy the image for your social network<\/button><\/p>\n<p>It is the person who presents the argument who is attacked, instead of the argument itself. This can take many forms. For instance, the attack may address the person&#8217;s nationality, religion or character, or their acquaintances. Also, the attack could rely on showing what is at stake for the person making the claim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong><br \/>\nYou say God doesn\u2019t exist, but you only say that to be trendy (abusive ad hominem).<br \/>\nWe must reject what the Premier Klein says about the new taxes, since he won\u2019t be affected by their rise (circumstantial ad hominem).<br \/>\nWe can&#8217;t accept the arguments of Share. B.C., since they are funded by the lumber industry (circumstantial ad hominem).<br \/>\nYou say I shouldn\u2019t drink, but you haven\u2019t been sober a single day in more than a year (ad hominem tu quoque).<\/p>\n<p><strong>To refute it<\/strong><br \/>\nIdentify the attack and prove that neither personality nor personal circumstances have anything to do with the truth or falsehood of the defended proposition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever the source is not referenced, both definitions and examples have been extracted from a translation of Jaime Wilson jwilson@bytecr.com based on<em> Stephen\u2019s Guide to the Logical Fallacies<\/em>. Copyright 1995-1998 Stephen Downes. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These texts have been modified by Miguel A. Lerma and now by us <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to adapt them -and those taken from Wikipedia- to our format.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have no arguments I\u2019ll take it out on you, let\u2019s see if that way\u2026 https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/12eng-1.gif Click here to copy the image for your social network It is the person who presents the argument who is attacked, instead of the argument itself. This can take many forms. For instance, the attack may address the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}