Ad hominem. Famed everywhere from the hallowed (cough) halls of our National Legislature to playgrounds at Pleasant Elementary School. Has a long history, too. (Probably the first fallacy that hominids came up with after the invention of …
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Tu quoque
Or, “the appeal to hypocrisy”
tu quoque is a debate tactic that attempts to nullify the point a person is making by accusing them of hypocrisy on that point. E.g.,
“Taxes are too high!”
“Really? You didn’t pay any taxes …
Side comment on “the bird site”
Usually I check Twitter in the morning before I go to work, and then in the evening. I didn’t check it this morning, but going on there tonight (9:30 PM, EST, US) my timeline read like the world was ending. …