Ad hominem Sentence Examples

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  • If the case against global warming skeptics is so strong, why is it necessary to indulge in ad hominem attacks and smears?

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  • Indeed accusing someone falsely of an ad hominem approach to debate is itself an ad hominem argument.

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  • He quotes it for a purpose, in an argument ad hominem.

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  • The fallacy argumentum ad hominem (abusive) supported by unsubstantiated assertions.

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  • These distinctions, he insists, have an objective reality, The cognizable by reason no less than the relations of Cambridge space or number; and he endeavours to refute moralists, Hobbism - which he treats as a " novantique philo- C d sophy," a mere revival of the relativism of Protagoras - chiefly by the following argumentum ad hominem.

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  • To meet this view Butler does not content himself, as is sometimes carelessly supposed, with insisting on the natural claim to authority of the conscience which his opponent repudiated as artificial; he adds a subtle and effective argument ad hominem.

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  • You cannot beat a good argumentum ad hominem now, can you?

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