This is an argumentum ad scholam, and pushes too far the demand for consistency. |
High on the list of fallacious tricks of rhetoric is one called argumentum ad populum, meaning an argument appealing to popular passions. |
In a case like this the argumentum ad hominem, though a perfectly fair one, is a perfectly useless one. |
It is a venue where debate is respected and seldom degenerates into argumentum ad hominem. |
It was evident that the argumentum ad hominem did not please him. |
The latter had nothing better to appeal to than that notoriously feeble resource, the argumentum ad hominem. |