Your Logical Fallacy Is

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Your Logical Fallacy Is is a website detailing a range of logical fallacies. It is commonly used in Internet discussions to quickly point out a fallacy that someone has made by dropping a YourLogicalFallacyIs URL.

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[edit] Ad hominem

The entry on ad hominem on Your Fallacy Is fails to adequately explain what does and does not count as an ad hominem. Ad hominem isn't just being abusive or mean, it is saying that the person is wrong because of the purported negative characteristic that you attribute to them.

Creationists, for instance, aren't wrong because they are idiots. They are wrong because the evidence doesn't support their point of view. The fact that they persist in believing their point of view in spite of the evidence may be good cause for saying that they are idiots though. That isn't ad hominem. It's abusive, perhaps it's not particularly convincing.

Saying "this guy is a wifebeater!" isn't an ad hominem. Saying "you shouldn't believe what this man says about quantum physics because he is a wifebeater" is. See Argumentum ad hominem#False positives.

An ad hominem attack is not necessarily fallacious. Because some people have attributed a fallacy here when one does not exist, it has been described by some as the ad hominem fallacy fallacy, a form of fallacy fallacy.

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