Ad hominem

Mr. Trump’s Fallacy Donald Trump during his presidential campaign has been attacking his competitors on a very personal level. Donald Trump has committed the fallacy of ad hominem when he claimed Carly Fiorina should not be president because of the fact that she is a woman and because of her past failed business endeavors, and when he attacked Dr. Ben Carson on the personal fact that he has been violent in the past as a reason for Dr. Carson not to be president. Carly Fiorina is a candidate…

estates mongul to Donald Trump the brand. With any brand, fallacies are used to “persuade” the buyer that the brand that the agency is selling is the right brand. Unlike deodorant ads, fallacies in presidential campaigns have…

Our world today is full of information, and a plethora of this information comes from advertising. Everywhere you look you see billboards, ads on the internet, and even advertisements on menus at restaurants that are trying to get you to buy a certain product. In these advertisements, there is a bunch of ways they try to persuade you that their product is so much better than the other products that are similar to it. Sometimes, advertisers try to sway away from the true facts and provide you…

difference. Nevertheless, Sharpe James took yellow-journalism and ad hominem abusive into something much cruder and used it in his favor. Sharpe James had insight that someone out of Booker’s campaign was scene in Sights, a club centered around promiscuity. Contrarily, this is an example of ad hominem tu-quoque for Booker’s campaign later found out that James himself was also in the club at one point. Another example of Sharpe James’ ad hominem abusive was when he called Corey Booker a “faggot…

By the year 1990, equality between the sexes has become unprecedentedly parallel and similar in nature despite the obvious minor differences in physiology and thinking, but an Australian philosopher by the name of David Stove challenges this idea in a very explicit and outright was in his essay The Intellectual Capacity of Women. This essay, in short, is a sharp criticism of modern feminism and challenges the belief that men are equal to women on several bases. Stove, in his essay uses many…

claims. Although Coca-Cola presents the situation in an amiable manner and approaches the argument with logical evidence, the Grove Press efficiently convinces the readers of the absurdity of Coca-Cola’s argument through the use of sarcasm and the ad hominem fallacy.…

Ad hominem is use to switch the discussion form criticize the argument or ideas to directly criticized the person themselves and by doing so it criticized their argument. This tactic is used by the Editorial Board, when the author refer the opposites to the…

to be extra positive biased toward the “professionals” decision. Hence, if scientists were respected to have the best knowledge of their field, wouldn’t Arguer B. have just as much knowledge in the field they are passionate about? Conforming to the ad verecundiam fallacy, even though there is emotion involved, both are still experts in what they do (40). A person’s ethos is always taken into effect in every form of argument whether it is positive or negative (36). Thus, every argument comes…

Satirical Comic Strip “Sorry to interrupt but Mr. Trump says all news is fake and full of lies.” - This statement is an example of faulty use of authority. The reason why the statement is an example of faulty use of authority is because Timmy is using Mr. Trump as a way to backup what he is saying as true. But in reality Mr. Trump is only one opinion, so therefore he is not a reliable source. “I have called this press conference to address the issue with the media and how the news is fake and…

advertisement in the media on a daily basis. In effect some have grown accustomed to them, and do not consider the errors in reasoning they are filled with. The media uses advertisements that contain logical fallacies like the weak analogy fallacy, the ad hominem fallacy, and the either/or fallacy, to shape the opinion of the public For example, Ameriquest has a weak analogy fallacy in a recent television ad.A dad who is driving his teenage daughter and her friends to a concert. The daughter…