PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ad Hominem, Rhetorical Question, Exaggeration

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Sascha Maicher

Document Summary

The premises are not relevant to the conclusion in the right way. What makes it proof of the conclusion. The one that we encounter in the daily basics over and over. Person attacks the characteristics of the someone in the making or the argument: person x is dumb, you"re too young to know, you are saying that because you are part of this political party. Some traits may lead you to question credibility low credibility makes you look closer at the actual argument. Inconsistency claiming this now but claimed something different on a different occasion it doesn"t mean that the argument is wrong, it just means that they are being inconsistency. Ta quoque: you too variation you don"t act in the way you make you argument sound - they don"t act up to the claim which doesn"t mean that the claim is wrong.