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Ad hominem   /æd hˈɑmɪnɛm/   Listen
Ad hominem

adjective
1.
Appealing to personal considerations (rather than to fact or reason).





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"Ad hominem" Quotes from Famous Books



... downright atheist. To this Socrates fairly answers, in accordance with the ideas of the time, that a downright atheist cannot believe in the sons of gods or in divine things. The notion that demons or lesser divinities are the sons of gods is not to be regarded as ironical or sceptical. He is arguing 'ad hominem' according to the notions of mythology current in his age. Yet he abstains from saying that he believed in the gods whom the State approved. He does not defend himself, as Xenophon has defended him, by appealing to his practice of religion. Probably he neither ...
— Apology - Also known as "The Death of Socrates" • Plato


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