A speaker says: 'Ignore her proposal about school hours, she failed her own exams.' Which fallacy is this?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. Ad hominem: it attacks the person instead of the proposal
- Step 1: The speaker never discusses the proposal on its merits. Step 2. He rejects it because of a personal fact about the person who made it, which is an ad hominem attack. Answer: Ad hominem: it attacks the person instead of the proposal. Why not the others: A straw man misrepresents the idea, a bandwagon appeals to numbers, and a slippery slope predicts a chain of consequences; none of them happens here.
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