fallacies

fallacies

1. Guilt by association

   • moral guilt or unfitness presumed to exist on the basis of one's known associations the doctrine of guilt by association has on occasion been used to brand as currently disloyal persons who at some past time had been members of an organization not known to be or considered subversive at the time they were members.

2. circumstancial

   • Circumstantial Ad Hominem. Fallacy occurs when someone uses unsound reasoning to support a claim or argument. Circumstantial Ad Hominem occurs when someone attacks a claim by saying that the person making the claim is only making it because it's in his/her interest or because of his/her circumstances.

3. abusive

   • The argument attacks a position by appealing to the despicable qualities, moral turpitude, and over-all lowness and meanness of a person who holds the position.

4. tu quoque

   • Tu quoque is called the argument that consists in rejecting an argument, or considering it false, alleging the inconsistency of the person who proposes it.