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Poisoning the well
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Poisoning the well is a type of informal fallacy where adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing something that the
Catholic academic John Henry Newman, who first coined the term in Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864)
Catholic academic John Henry Newman, who first coined the term in Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864)
Ad hominem
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Ad hominem, short for argumentum ad hominem, is a rhetorical tactic of attacking the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than the substance of the argume
Poisoning the well
…audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing something that the target person is about to say. Poisoning the well can be a special case of argumentum ad hominem, and the term was first used in this sense by Catholic philosopher and Doctor of the Church John Henry Newman in his work Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864…
Aristotle (384–322 BC) is credited with raising the distinction between personal and logical arguments.
Aristotle (384–322 BC) is credited with raising the distinction between personal and logical arguments.