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Ad hominem   Listen
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Ad hominem  phr.  A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ad hominem" Quotes from Famous Books



... am in a very agreeing frame of mind) with your argumentum ad hominem, about the highness of the Australian Flora from the number of species and genera; but here comes in a superlative bothering element of doubt, ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin

... either not examined the evidence, or, having examined it, refused to accept its plain and unavoidable consequences. I should be sorry to think, with Dr. Rigby, that it was a case of "oblique vision"; I should be unwilling to force home the argumentum ad hominem of Dr. Blundell, but I would not consent to make a question of a momentous fact which is no longer to be considered as a subject for trivial discussions, but to be acted upon with silent promptitude. It signifies nothing that wise and ...
— The Harvard Classics Volume 38 - Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) • Various



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