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Ad Hominem Fallacy The ad hominem fallacy is where a person attacks the other person rather than their point of the argument. someone attacks the other person's emotions or personality rather than answering the point of the argument. media type="youtube" key="HbpP60mGNBw" width="420" height="315" The teacher is telling her students that Harry Potter is real. While the students are asking questions about how valid her statement is she is avoiding their questions and saying that she is the expert and her students don't know what they are talking about. She is attacking the student rather than answering their questions and making her argument invalid.

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He is telling us that he believes Sarah Palin could be president but he claims he doesn't know anything about her. He keeps avoiding his argument and attacks her as a person instead of focusing on the argument itself.