Question

What is an example of an ad hominem fallacy?

Answer 1

The words ad hominem are Latin for 'against the man'. In other words, an argument that resorts to using an ad hominem attacks a person in order to shoot down the person's argument instead of using research or logic to do so. This means that it is a fallacy, or an argument with bad logic and poor reasoning.

Example 1: Direct Name-Calling

Example 2: Indirect Ad Hominem (Attack of Character)