Ad Hominem

3. Ad Hominem Fallacy: This is where you reject someone's argument or criticism by attacking the person rather than addressing the actual issue in dispute.

The “fundamental attribution error” refers to our tendency to overattribute others’ behaviors to their dispositions, while reversing this tendency for ourselves.

1. Straw Man Fallacy: This occurs when someone takes another person's argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in some kind of extreme way, and then attacks the extreme distortion, as if that is really the claim the first person is making.

2. Red Herring Fallacy: This fallacy is basically the use of a trick to avoid the main points, often by ignoring other views instead of facing them:

Perhaps the easiest way to squash a dissenting argument is to just disqualify it right off the bat based on who said it, without ever addressing the argument itself. The infamous ad hominem fallacy.

Perhaps the easiest way to squash a dissenting argument is to just disqualify it right off the bat based on who said it, without ever addressing the argument itself. The infamous ad hominem fallacy.