{"id":43432,"date":"2022-04-06T20:46:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=43432"},"modified":"2022-04-06T20:46:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:46:55","slug":"philosophy-ad-hominem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/philosophy-ad-hominem\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy: ad hominem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about philosophy: the tutor mentions the concept of <em>ad hominem<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p>\n<em>ad hominem:<\/em> suggesting that a person&#8217;s argument doesn&#8217;t make sense based on something personal about them, rather than referencing their argument itself.<\/p>\n<p>\nAn example of <em>ad hominem<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She told me I should exercise if I want to lose weight. Why would I take her advice, given how fat she is!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>\nAd hominem seems to be the way most people actually do form their opinions: if an attractive, popular, successful person says it, they believe it; otherwise, they don&#8217;t. The reason it&#8217;s a fallacy is that while people are fickle, the truth is less so.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.txstate.edu\/philosophy\/resources\/fallacy-definitions\/Ad-Hominem.html\">txstate.edu<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about philosophy: the tutor mentions the concept of ad hominem. ad hominem: suggesting that a person&#8217;s argument doesn&#8217;t make sense based on something personal about them, rather than referencing their argument itself. An example of ad hominem: &#8220;She told &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/philosophy-ad-hominem\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philosophy: ad hominem<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43435,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43432\/revisions\/43435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}