How To Use Ad hominem In A Sentence
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My fellow citizens is an apostrophe, a formal address to an audience, whose distance has been shortened by the insertion of the ad hominem term fellow—that is, an ingratiating suggestion to his audience that they start out on his side.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
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Pointing out the funding from Exxon Mobil is a textbook Ad Hominem attack, and it erodes the credibility of this site.
Wonk Room » Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Calls Barbara Boxer A Racist
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Most of his commentators spruiked the usual ad hominems which come to think of it, if I was that Kooky and irrelevant, why would they spend so much intellectual capital on a no body?
Thompson, Hardy, Hemp and the Snows of Kilimanjaro « Climate Audit
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The precepts of Centralism rest heavily on a base of ad hominem argumentation, not on empirical evidence of their effectiveness.
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You buy the bullshit that comes out of the whitehouse like it is heavy creame. then you make ad hominems on me for pointing out these little inconvenient observations.
CIA interrogations: "tough enough"?
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This may come closer to some well-known errors of logic such as syllogism, sophistry, argumentsad hominem , argumentsad captandum, and argumentsadd one too many.
The Deluxe Election-Edition Bushisms
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First of all, Fake-Latin Name Person, the terms argumentum ad hominem and insult are orthogonal to each other.
Pharyngula
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If rational arguments are available for increasing the aggression on the net taxpayer via immigration; why would ad hominem smear terms, such as jingo and chauvinist appear?
Are Immigrants "Ordinary People"?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The reduction of opposing viewpoints via ad hominem attacks, or by what essentially is a canard, says much more about the "reducer" than the "reducee.
Daily News-Record
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ad hominem arguments
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Adjunct, ad hominem, associate, emeritus, honorary, regius, special, visiting, titular.
Times, Sunday Times
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What is not on topic are your argumenta ad hominem, in which you take up not the issues, but what you claim to be the personal characteristics of your those whom you regard as opponents: Mr Bush is an «alcohol-soaked-brain'd moron» and my last posting reads «like the ramblings of someone who had a few too many pints at the pub» (can it be the case that you are fixated on alcohol?).
Hamas Victory is Bush "War Against Terror" Failure
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The far right has done its calculations, and it is pretty certain that just doing these kinds of ad hominem attacks will finally drag down a promising time in our political history, and return us to the dark ages of fear and loathing from the previous years.
Georgia congressman: Wilson's outburst 'carefully calculated'
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Now, this person, without attention to the meaning of ad hominem, thinks it appropriate to use the term inappropriately whenever appropriate criticism is leveled at the right.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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It's never too early to start sharpening the insults and perfecting the ad hominem attacks.
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That Carol Shea-Porter's statement to the mis-guided (and craven) loud-mouth is appropriate; and, that it is un-assailable as an 'ad hominem' attack is clear to anyone.
Quote Of The Day
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Perhaps few of them suspected the _argumentum ad hominem_ -- or rather _ad feminam_ -- in Woodhull's speech.
The Covered Wagon
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The argument for moving to a higher level of generality is often framed in terms of an ad hominem rather than a real argument.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement
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Again, I don't like ad hominem attacks, but coming from Bob Bittman, the word untrustworthy takes on a new meaning.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: David Letterman Undergoes Emergency Heart Surgery; William Ginsburg Discusses His Defense of Monica Lewinsky - January 14, 2000
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Oh yes — in keeping with the quote from Rav Soloveitchik at the bottom of of blogstream, I wish people would dispense with the ad hominem attacks.
Haran home and tell your friends! | Jewschool
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Argument ad homine ad hominem criticisms are not worthy of our time.
Minimum Wage and CEO Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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In his typical ad hominem fashion, Jarvis attacks Levy for being a white male.
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He will spark of such an argument via the use of ad hominem attacks (i.e. 'you're nothing but a fanboy' is a popular phrase) (or in this case repeated accusations that those contributing are "embittered feminists") with no substance or relevance to back them up as well as straw man arguments (i.e. continual redefining of what the discussion is actually about), which he uses to simply avoid addressing the essence of the issue.
Sex and the single Marvel super heroine | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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I have tried sarcasm, pathos, statistics, rude and crass personal ad hominem attacks, but they don't see.", he said to himself as he rose over the esker and spotted the village as dusk creeped forward.
"Americans Like Big Government: They just don't really know it yet."
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Otherwise, you can keep your bloviated passion to yourself and we won't have to worry about ad hominem bullshit posing as an argument.
Obama Administration Punts On Don't Ask, Don't Tell
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This conversation started off ad hominem: I'm "solipsistic," misguided, I'm politically motivated, I'm ignorant of the basic facts and of the "meaning" of the text.
Whether true or not
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Pointing out that you wrote out sentences that are literally impossible to decipher is not an ad hominem.
The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Not the Crime, It’s the Cover-Up — Sestak Edition
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Meanwhile, I await your examples of innuendo, ad hominem attacks, muckraking, uncharity and namecalling in my article.
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Various forms of generalised insult and uncivil ad hominem attack have too often been the norm, and the opportunity for factual and disciplined analysis of where Lomborg's book may be wrong is largely forgone.
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When you said you didn't apply to grad programs in philosophy because of a left wing bias, this is an ad hominem argument against those arteriosclerotic minds who believe such things.
Why Not Wrestle With a Pig?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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When Tom isn't trying to change the subject through ad hominem or terminological arguments, he's often making a wordy confession of his political tendencies or saying things that are just plain wrong.
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Ad hominem slanders are fine when directed at former comrades.
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Of course it is needless to say this was dressed up with faux-creative writing skills, accompanied by the kind of smarmy posturing and ad hominems that so frequently characterizes the attacks from “the left”.
2009 April 22 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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And my characterization of your attitude is no lie; it positively rises miasmically from the swamp of your fallaciously ad hominem rhetoric.
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Left wing and right wing are largely useless terms and are now usually only seen in cases of generalisation or before an ad hominem attack.
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He also engages in that time-tested rhetorical device, the ad hominem attack, through an anastrophe.
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Clearly, we need a clearer definition of argumenta ad hominem.
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Most of the rest of the interview is the same old canards, misleading talking points, ad hominems, undefined terms, self-contradictions, and so forth.
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I'd note that "Bart" here, after complaining so long and so mightily about the "ad hominem" of Dowd and the lack of specifics, slings around the "perjury! perjury!" cowflop with nary a supporting argument (and even against the weight of undisuted events such as the failure of even the impeachment on the second "perjury" article).
Balkinization
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But then the urge to take cheap shots and let rip an ad hominem blast is too much to resist:
What planet is "America" magazine living on?
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Hence, in lieu of offering anything that can be described as coherent or cogent, you immediately launch into the use of ad hominem, presumptive and denigrative terms, i.e. “homophobic,” “bizarre,” “hate,” etc.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas
