Ad Hominem April Reprogle Brian Hodges Kayce Russell

Ad Hominem 1. appealing to emotions 2. appealing to people's emotions and prejudices instead of their ability to think Using someone's credibility against them Using moral values to portray a person as noncredible 1. Person A makes claim X 2. Person B attacks person A 3. Therefore A’s claim is false

Universal Example • http: //youtu. be/c. Ngn. Yl 2 Hy. Fk? t=26 s Mean Girls. Dir. Mark Waters. Perf. Lindsay Lohan. Paramount, 2004. Film. Fallacy Videos - Mean Girls. Youtube, 27 Aug. 2011. Web. 21 Feb. 2013. <http: //youtu. be/c. Ngn. Yl 2 Hy. Fk? t=26 s>.

Crucible Examples of Ad Hominem Act I Pg. 187 • • HALE: Soup? What sort of soup were in this kettle, Abigail? ABIGAIL: Why, it were beans—and lintels, I think, and— • HALE: Mister Parris, you did notice, did you—any living thing in the kettle? A mouse, perhaps, a spider, a frog? • ABIGAIL: That frog jumped in, we never put it in! • HALE: Abigail, it may be your cousin is dying—Did you call the Devil last night? • ABIGAIL: I never called him! Tituba called him! • PARRIS: She called the Devil!

Explanation • Hale asks Abigail why there was a frog in the soup and how it got there. Abigails story begins to fall apart and her lies are exposed, she says it was Tituba who conjured the devil thereby taking attention away from Abigail. She says because Tituba is from Barbados she spoke in a different language and made the girls do what they did.

Crucible Examples of Ad Hominem Pg 102 Act 3 • • • PROCTOR: How do you call Heaven! Whore! DANFORTH: Man! Man, what do you. PROCTOR: You charge-? ABIGAIL: Mr. Danforth, he is lying! PROCTOR: Mark her! Now she’ll suck a scream to stab me with, but • DANFORTH: You will prove this! This will not pass! • PROCTOR: I have known her , sir. I have known her. • DANFORTH: You-you are a lecher?

Explanation • In this scene Abigail says she is being bewitched and John Proctor is the one using Ad Hominem having known she is faking says that Abigail is a whore, thereby distracting the court towards his sin of lechery and focusing on whats real and not lies.

One Last example • The Virgin Mary because the church said she was a whore and people looked down upon her because a higher authority said it was so even though historical documents clearly show she wasnt

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