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  Followup-To: alt.atheism Archive-name: atheism/logic Alt-atheism-archive-name: logic Last-
The circumstantial form of Argumentum ad Hominem is committed when a person argues that his opponent ought to accept the truth of an assertion because of the opponent's particular circumstances.
ARGUMENTUM AD LAZARUM The fallacy of assuming that because someone is poor he or she is sounder or more virtuous than one who is wealthier.
This fallacy is the opposite of the argumentum ad crumenam.
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argumentum ad hominem (abusive): argument addressed against the opponent rather than the issue, for instance making the point that one's opponent is a communist in a discussion on computer science.
ARGUMENTUM AD LAZARUM Description: A fallacy of assuming that because someone is poor he or she is sounder or more virtuous than one who is wealthier.
Fallacy of argumentum ad baculum (argument from power or force.) The Latin means "an argument according to the stick." "argument by means of the rod," "argument using force." Arguing to support the acceptance of an argument by a threat, or use of fo rce.
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 Classic Mustang Forum - Vintage Mustang Q&A Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This particular form of argumentum ad hominem, when you allege that someone is rationalizing a conclusion for selfish reasons, is also known as "poisoning the well." It's not always invalid to refer to the circumstances of an individual who is making a claim.
Argumentum ad ignorantiam means "argument from ignorance." The fallacy occurs when it's argued that something must be true, simply because it hasn't been proved false.
Argumentum ad nauseam is one that employs constant repetition in asserting something; saying the same thing over and over again until you're sick of hearing it.
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 Informal Fallacies
The argumentum ad absurdum, or reductio ad absurdum, is itself a valid argument, based on the principle [the Law of Clavius, (-P -> P) -> P] that the introduction of the denial of the conclusion into a valid argument produces a contradiction and establishes the conclusion.
Thus the argumentum ad hominem and argumentum ab auctoritate are forms of the Genetic Fallacy that, in the context of belief, are not fallacies at all.
Impeaching a witness in a legal case is an ad hominem argument, but as the credibility of the witness is reason for believing his testimony, attacking his credibility is relevant to the situation.
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 English Composition 1: Logical Argument
Argumentum ad hominem usually occurs when the writer attacks the person or group of people making the assertion, rather than attacking the person's evidence, assumptions, premises, inferences, or conclusions.
he opposite of argumentum ad antiquitatem, the writer asserts that a proposition is more likely to be correct simply because it is new or newer than the other propositions.
Shifting the burden of proof, a special case of argumentum ad ignorantiam, means putting the burden of proof on the anyone who denies or questions the assertion being made.
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Argumentum Fistulatorum: or, "argument of one who plays upon a pipe." This method involves not responding to your opponent's argument, but annoying them by whistling a tune instead.
Argumentum Baculinum: or, "argument of the stick." This involves resorting to violence and physically beating your opponent.
Argumentum ad Crumenam: or, "argument directed to the purse." This is any argument which takes advantage of the "avarice or need" of your opponent.
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 Logical fallacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When one politician says to another, "You don't have the moral authority to say X", this could be an example of the argumentum ad hominem or personal attack fallacy; that is, attempting to disprove X, not by addressing validity of X but by attacking the person who asserted X.
Ad hominem (also called argumentum ad hominem or personal attack) Including:
Argumentum ad nauseam (also called argument from repetition)
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ARGUMENTUM AD BACULUM / APPEAL TO FORCE The Appeal to Force is committed when the arguer resorts to force or the threat of force in order to try and push the acceptance of a conclusion.
To conclude otherwise is to fall victim of the Argumentum ad Ignorantiam.
Either case is a logical fallacy, an appeal to ignorance." The argumentum ad ignorantium is committed whenever it is argued that a proposition is true simply on the basis that it has not been proved false, or that it is false because it has not been proved true.
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 Crumenam, Argumentum Ad - Logical Fallacies - The Adam Smith Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He might have added that right-handed people disagreed with him, that six-foot tall people agreed, and that those with hazel eyes were evenly divided.
The fallacy in the argumentum ad crumenam is, of course, that wealth has nothing to do with it.
Behind the argumentum ad crumenam there lies the vague feeling that God would not allow people who were wicked and wrong to scoop the pool of life's goodies.
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 American History I: Syllabus
This particular form of Argumentum ad Hominem, when one alleges that one's adversary is rationalizing a conclusion formed from selfish interests, is also known as "poisoning the well".
This is the opposite of the Argumentum ad Antiquitatem; it is the fallacy of asserting that something is more correct simply because it is new or newer than something else..
Shifting the burden of proof, a special case of Argumentum ad Ignorantiam, is the fallacy of putting the burden of proof on the person who denies or questions the assertion being made.
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 REASON: Logic & Logical Fallacies
ARGUMENTUM AD An argument that resorts to the threat of force to cause the acceptance of
ARGUMENTUM AD A fallacy of assuming that because someone is poor he or she is sounder or
ARGUMENTUM AD An argument that appeals to the beliefs of the multitude.
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 Argumentum ad crumenam -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Argumentum ad crumenam is a (A fallacy in logical argumentation) logical fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct because the person making the argument is rich.
This fallacy is notably prevelant in art, movie, video game, or music criticism; in the form "you can try to critize product X but it makes millions so you don't count".
The opposite is the (additional info and facts about argumentum ad lazarum) argumentum ad lazarum.
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argumentum ad hominem: an argument addressed to the man, or having a direct personal bearing; an argument deriving its force from the practice, prejudices, principles, etc., of the person addressed or immediately concerned.
argumentum ad absurdum: an argument focused on the errors of the opponent's position instead of the merits of one's own.
argumentum ad captandum: an argument appealing to arousal of passions, similar to ad populum.
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 Logical Argument
Argumentum ad hominem literally means an "argument directed at the man," not at his ideas, evidence, arguments, or beliefs.
Argumentum ad ignorantiam means "argument from ignorance." If a writer is trying to argue that something must be or might be real simply because there is no evidence to the contrary, then the writer is using argumentum ad ignorantiam.
argumentum ad ignorantiam, this fallacy rests on the assumption that something is true unless proven otherwise.
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 List of fallacy pages:A - EvoWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ad ignorantiam fallacy - "absence of proof is proof of absence"
Argumentum ad ignorantiam - "absence of proof is proof of absence"
Argumentum ad temperantiam - claiming that in a given conflict, the middle ground must be the correct answer
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 Bashford's Logic FAQ
To conclude *-otherwise is to fall victim of the Argumentum ad Ignorantiam.
This fallacy is *-the opposite of the argumentum ad crumenam.
An "argumentum ad nauseam" is one *-that employs constant repetition in asserting something.
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This is the opposite of the Argumentum ad Antiquitatem; it's the fallacy of asserting that something is more correct simply because it is new, or newer than something else.
So an Argumentum ad Nauseam is one that employs constant repetition in asserting something; saying the same thing over and over again until you're sick of hearing it.
This is an example of an ad hoc change being used to shore up an assertion, combined with an attempt to shift the meaning of the words used original assertion.
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ARGUMENTUM AD ANTIQUITAM Description: A fallacy of asserting that something is right or good simply because it is old; that is, because "that's the way it's always been." ARGUMENTUM AD CRUMENAM Description: Fallacy of believing that money is a criterion of correctness; that those with more money are more likely to be right.
AD HOMINEM Description: An argument that attempts to disprove the truth of what is asserted by attacking the speaker rather than the speaker's argument.
This fallacy is the opposite of the informal fallacy "argumentum ad crumenam." ARGUMENTUM AD NOVITAM Description: A fallacy of asserting that something is more correct simply because it is new or newer than something else.
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 Logic: Logical Fallacies
Ad populum arguments often occur in 1) propaganda 2) demagoguery, and 3) advertizing.
This is the opposite of argumentum ad crumenam.
An "argumentum ad naseum" is one that employs constant repitition in asserting a concept.
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 Logical Fallacies
argumentum ad baculinum -- Fallacy that occurs when threat of force is made, either implicitly or explicitly.
argumentum ad lazarum -- The fallacy of supposing a conclusion is valid because the argument is made by a poor person.
It is the opposite of the ad crumenam fallacy.
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 Fallacies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Argumentum ad ignorantiam means "argument from ignorance." This fallacy occurs when it is argued that something must be true, simply because it has not been proven false.
It is the opposite of Argumentum ad Lazarum.
This is a personal attack, and is therefore a special case of Argumentum ad Hominem.
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 The Bank and The Deal meet The Logical Fallacies
Committing Argumentum Ad Verecundiam is always messy; changing your horses in the middle of the stream while doing so just makes matters that much worse.
As should be obvious, of all Logical Fallacies, it is Argumentum Ad Misercordiam that most sickens the soul.
Argumentum Ad Numerum has been responsible for more of the world’s misery than any other of The Fallacies, for it was the one Fallacy most profitably exploited by the Nazis, effectively toppling the Weimar Republic; it is the one Fallacy that present-day Bermuda needs least.
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 LOGICAL FALLACIES: a listing
The Ad Hoc fallacy is to give an after-the-fact explanation which doesn't apply to other situations.
Argumentum ad hominem literally means "argument directed at the man"; there are two varieties.
This particular form of Argumentum ad Hominem, when you allege that someone is rationalizing a conclusion for selfish reasons, is also known as "poisoning the well".
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 HOW TO SPOT FUZZY THINKING (This Rock: August 1990)
There is no discussion of argumentum ad crumenam (the appeal to self-interest; literally, "to the purse") or of obscurum per obscurius (the explanation of something obscure by something even more obscure); these are not arguments likely to be advanced by critics of Catholicism.
Sometimes the ad hominem arguer asserts that everything his opponent says is suspect because of his supposed bad character--even his protestations of innocence.
This is known as argumentum ad populum ("appeal to the people")--telling the people what they want to hear, whether or not it's true.
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 Logical fallacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Appeal to consequences (also called argumentum ad consequentiam)
Argument from fallacy (also called argumentum ad logicam)
Argumentum ad populum (also called Appeal to belief, Argumentum ad numerum, Appeal to popularity, Appeal to the people, Bandwagon fallacy, Appeal to the majority, Authority of the many, Consensus gentium, Authority of the many, Appeal to the gallery, Argument by consensus)
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 The Lair of Fang-Face DreamWeaver: debate guidelines and structuring logical arguments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sometimes in a court of law doubt is cast upon the testimony of a witness by showing, for example, that he is a known perjurer.
Argumentum ad ignorantiam means "argument from ignorance." This fallacy occurs whenever it is argued that something must be true simply because it has not been proved false.
But in 2000 Bush added another problematic element to such exchanges by rejecting accurate claims by Gore as "fuzzy math," indicating that there was a computational error in Gore's analysis that could be corrected.
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He sure as hell would have creamed Cheney on his government feeding trough%2C aka Halliburton%2C in the debate.123 993There is a name for this fallacious rationale...Trajan13:13:1212/03/2002It is an argumentum ad lazarum....
This fallacy is the%0D%0Aopposite of the Argumentum ad Crumenam.
which is opposite of the argumentum ad crumenam...
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 Logic Fallacies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ad ignorantium arguments are also known as "appeals to ignorance." This fallacy has two forms:
This fallacy is the opposite of the informal fallacy "argumentum ad crumenam."
Description: A fallacy that asserts that the more people who support or believe a proposition then the more likely that that proposition is correct; it equates mass support with correctness.
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 Spindoctoring - allnurses.com Nursing for Nurses
An appeal to the majority (also called argumentum ad populum) is the logical fallacy of believing that because something is popular, it is right.
Argumentum ad crumenam is a logical fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct because the person making the argument is rich e.g.
It is not the actual flip=flopping that is the issue it is the repeating of this ad nauseum that is the real problem.
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 The Atheism Web: Logic & Fallacies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This is part of the explanation for urban legends; stories which are verifiably false have been known to circulate as anecdotes for years.
This is the fallacy of asserting that something is right or good simply because it's old, or because "that's the way it's always been." The opposite of Argumentum ad Novitatem.
Argumentum ad Ignorantiam, is the fallacy of putting the burden of proof on the person who denies or questions the assertion.
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 hippoblog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Argumentum ad Rem, or "an argument addressed to 'the thing'".
They're very good, and I wonder how we didn't manage to land on those despite years of rumination.
And what a shame, indeed, that "ad Rem" didn't show up back then.
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