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The effect of ad hominem attacks on the evaluation of claims promoted by scientists. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Two experiments were conducted to determine the relative impact of direct and indirect (ad hominem) attacks on science claims. Four hundred and thirty-nine college students (Experiment 1) and 199 adults (Experiment 2) read a series of science claims and ...
Ralph M Barnes +4 more
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Beyond ad hominem attacks: A typology of the discursive tactics used when objecting to news commentary on social media. [PDF]
PLoS ONESocial media platforms increasingly serve as the primary place where people participate in public conversations about news. In these conversations, ad hominem attacks are quite common.
Ashley L Shea +8 more
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Moral deliberation and ad hominem fallacies [PDF]
Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2015 Many of us read Peter Singer’s work on our obligations to those in desperate need with our students. Famously, Singer argues that we have a moral obligation to give a significant portion of our assets to famine relief.
Leibowitz, Uri D.
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Res Rhetorica, 2022 Celem niniejszego artykułu jest analiza destrukcji wizerunku osoby w dyskursie na przykładzie użycia argumentu ad hominem w komentarzach internautów dotyczących nagrody Nobla 2018 przyznanej w dziedzinie literatury polskiej pisarce i intelektualistce ...
Joanna Koswenda, Jolanta Dyoniziak
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In Defence of Virtue: The Legitimacy of Agent-Based Argument Appraisal
Informal Logic, 2014 Several authors have recently begun to apply virtue theory to argumentation. Critics of this programme have suggested that no such theory can avoid committing an ad hominem fallacy.
Andrew Aberdein
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Argument ad hominem, argument ad personam i atak osobisty – analiza porównawcza
Res Rhetorica, 2023 Wiele współczesnych źródeł, od internetowych kursów krytycznego myślenia do podręczników do logiki uznanych autorów, zdaje się pomijać istotną różnicę między trzema różnymi pojęciami: argumentami ad hominem, argumentami ad personam i atakami ad personam
Jakub Pruś
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It's All Very Well for You to Talk! Situationally Disqualifying Ad Hominem Attacks
Informal Logic, 1993 The situationally disqualifying ad hominem attack is an argumentative move in critical dialogue whereby one participant points out certain features in his adversary's personal situation that are claimed to make it inappropriate for this adversary to ...
Erik C. W. Krabbe, Douglas Walton
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Valid Ad Hominem Arguments in Philosophy: Johnstone's Metaphilosophical Informal Logic
Informal Logic, 2001 This is a critical examination of Johnstone's thesis that all valid philosophical arguments are ad hominem. I clarify his notions of valid, philosophical, and ad hominem. I illustrate the thesis with his refutation ofthe claim that only ordinary language
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
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Virtues, Evidence, and Ad Hominem Arguments
Informal Logic, 2015 Argumentation theorists are beginning to think of ad hominem arguments as generally legitimate. Virtue argumentation theorists argue that a character trait approach to argument appraisal can explain why ad hominems would are legitimate, when they are ...
Patrick Bondy
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