The Ad Hominem Fallacy in Critical Thinking
The ad hominem ("to the person") fallacy is an informal fallacy in which an arguer rejects a claim by attacking the character, circumstances, or consistency of the person asserting it rather than addressing the argument's premises or logical structure. Because the standing of the speaker is generally irrelevant to an argument's validity or soundness, inferring that a claim is false from a person's bad character or dubious situation is logically flawed; this concept belongs to informal logic / critical thinking, within the broader study of fallacious reasoning.
The Ad Hominem Fallacy in Critical Thinking
The ad hominem ("to the person") fallacy is an informal fallacy in which an arguer rejects a claim by attacking the character, circumstances, or consistency of the person asserting it rather than add…