1. What is an ad hominem fallacy?
| a. | This is a case in which someone argues for a claim based on an emotion that is irrelevant to the question at hand, such as pity or fear. | |
| b. | This fallacy occurs when someone uses an equivocal or ambiguous terms in one of its senses in the premises of an argument and in the other sense in the conclusion. | |
| c. | The fallacy is also known as the “slippery slope” fallacy–this is when someone arrives as a desired conclusion by making an illegitimate leap from an uncontroversial premise to additional related premises which do imply the conclusion but are not themselves justified. | |
| d. | Rather than evaluating and critiquing what an argument says, someone guilty of this fallacy attacks the person making the argument. | |
| e. | This common fallacy occurs when someone tries to justify a wrongdoing by pointing out that another person has done exactly the same thing and not been called out for it. |