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Generally, a personal attack is committed when a person substitutes , Belief s, Lifestyle , convictions or Principle s, and use it as a Debate Tactic or as a means of avoiding discussion of the relevance or truthfulness the person's statement. It works on the reasoning that, by discrediting the source of a Logical Argument , namely the person making it, the argument itself can be weakened. This line of "reasoning" is fallacious because the attack is directed at the person making the claim and not the claim itself. The truth value of a claim is independent of the person making the claim. No matter how morally repugnant a person might be, he or she can still make true claims. For example, a defense attorney may claim that a witness' testimony cannot be trusted because he is a convicted felon. On the other hand, illuminating real character The writer is a homo judicial process. Use of a personal attack in a logical argument constitutes a Formal Fallacy called '' Ad Hominem '', a term that comes from a Latin phrase meaning ''"toward the man"''. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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