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Tu Quoque, Red Herring or just Deflection?I was watching Survivor and the context was that a player got punished from the production because he had violated some rules and the others were upset about this because they suspected him of trying to find food and eat it by himself. Also in the past they felt they couldn't trust him, but they didn't have any solid proof, just a gut feeling. |
asked on Sunday, Feb 14, 2021 11:23:16 PM by Kostas Oikonomou | |
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I struggled to make out the context, but from what I can infer, this is a relevance fallacy and seems like one form of ad hominem. As a poster already pointed out, ad hominem (abusive) makes sense (derailing the argument with spurious allegations of misconduct, true or false). |
answered on Monday, Feb 15, 2021 09:48:39 AM by TrappedPrior (RotE) | |
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I would classify this in ad hominem (abusive) . |
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answered on Monday, Feb 15, 2021 08:28:02 AM by Shockwave | |||||||||
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