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The effect of ad hominem attacks on the evaluation of claims promoted by scientists. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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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Virtues, Evidence, and Ad Hominem Arguments

open access: yesInformal 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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Valid Ad Hominem Arguments in Philosophy: Johnstone's Metaphilosophical Informal Logic

open access: yesInformal 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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It's All Very Well for You to Talk! Situationally Disqualifying Ad Hominem Attacks

open access: yesInformal 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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Argument ad hominem, argument ad personam i atak osobisty – analiza porównawcza [PDF]

open access: yesRes 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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Perelman, argument ad hominem et ethos rhétorique

open access: yesArgumentation Et Analyse Du Discours, 2009
Perelman’s view of the role of persons in argument is one of the most distinctive features of his break with Cartesian assumptions about reasoning. Whereas the Rationalist paradigm sought to minimize or eliminate personal considerations by dismissing ...
Michael Leff
exaly   +3 more sources

Destrukcja wizerunku publicznego w dyskursie. Rola argumentu ad hominem w komentarzach internautów dotyczących polskiej pisarki Olgi Tokarczuk

open access: yesRes 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

open access: yesInformal 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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Les avatars de l’autorité sur Twitter : l’exemple des usagers face à l’Allocution de Nouvel An du Président Macron

open access: yesArgumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2021
This article proposes an analysis of the reception of a political leader’s authority on Twitter. The case study selected is the comments of the internet users to the French President Emmanuel Macron’s New Year’s Eve Message in 2018. The objective of this
Keren Sadoun-Kerber
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