The ad hominem logical fallacy, in Rugby terms, is playing the player rather than the ball. (If you have no problem with this, consider the ball to be elsewhere completely.)
From the Ad Hominem page of The Nizkor Project (a site dedicated to countering Holocaust denial):
An Ad Hominem is a general category of fallacies in which [...]
Entries Tagged with 'Logical Fallacy'
Ad Hominem: Playing the Player
December 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Categories: Religion and Science
Tags: Ad Hominem · Baloney Detection · Logical Fallacy
The Man of Straw
December 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment
The straw man argument: a mainstay for convincing the credulous to believe in your particular fiction.
Suppose you are making a movie and you need to have some guy chopped up or hanged, or something dramatic. Knowing you will be unable to chop up or hang a real person, you create a dummy. A dummy that [...]
Categories: Religion and Science
Tags: Baloney Detection · Logical Fallacy · Straw Man
Precepts and Faith:
Creationists Believe Lions Originally Ate Plants:
Why I Cannot Join Shofar:
There's No Such Thing as "Faith":
Erwin McManus on Eating Meat on the Streets of Athens: